This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...desire to learn, and are patient in study. The Mackenzie Eiver Indians, while more stolid, are less easily offended or angered. The reception of the Gospel does indeed fashion and remodel all these hearts alike; and it is a happy thing to find Christian obedience in. so distant a clime, and to hear ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1893 edition. Excerpt: ...desire to learn, and are patient in study. The Mackenzie Eiver Indians, while more stolid, are less easily offended or angered. The reception of the Gospel does indeed fashion and remodel all these hearts alike; and it is a happy thing to find Christian obedience in. so distant a clime, and to hear similar testimony from each, that the Spirit of God has inclined them to cast away their heathen vices, and rejoice in a Saviour's service. The employments and avocations of each tribe vary; but, as the above text assures us, all are arranged by God. The Esquimaux shows skill and hardihood in the pursuit and capture of the monsters of the Arctic Ocean--the whale, walrus and seal. He will ride the waves in his small skin-covered canoe, with as much ease as a horseman with a curvetting steed on dry land. The Tsirnasan on the Pacific coast will provide his winter stores in the salmon or oolikum fishery, and will brave ocean storms in his frail but admirably shaped canoe. The forest Indian, inland, will light his lonely camp fire, engaged with his trapping or his chase, and will fear no harm, though solitary in the vast forest. These may, alas! be unmindful of their great Creator and His watchful providence, but it is glaringly plain that He is not unmindful of them. Nothing can be more conspicuous to an observing eye, than the separate and distinct provision of an all-seeing care for the wants of each and all, and the adaptation of the habits and skill of each tribe to their position. It seems almost with a similar instinct to that by which the bird builds its neatly woven nest, or the bee its geometrically constructed honey-comb, that the coast Indian shapes his cedar-wood canoe, and the river Indian his different one of root-sewn birch-rind. A...
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