18 Snapshots from the North Pacifie.

for the gold-miners during the summer, and both live here
during the winter. This steady employment has told
advantageously on the Indian’s character. He is above all
things naturally fickle and indisposed to steady work. Asa
rule the miners have paid them well, and taught them the
value of labour. Hence these people, formerly the lowest of
the low, and called the dogs of the Skeena, have, through the
material advantages they have enjoyed, risen in the scale,
and now have better houses than their neighbours, better
food, and better clothing. They are therefore healthier,
stronger, less dirty than the rest, and the proportion of
children greater. Contact with the whites therefore has not
produced the deplorable results that one too often hears of.
Now that a Mission has been established here, and stress laid

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A Mining Camp.