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pioneer of science, say to one another, ‘It is time for us to
die.’ They did not realize that a force greater than steam
had reached them twelve years earlier by a frail canoe. Then
the Spirit of the living God owned the work of His ministers,
since which sixty souls have, we humbly hope, been con-
verted; more than that number having been baptized, and
many entered into rest eternal. At first we had beet
objects of curiosity, then suspected, hated by the medicine
fraternity, then respected, and now loved, when commerce
has become an instrument and science a giant in making a
highway for our God.

“TI had intended to bring down Mr. and Mrs. Field to
the coast to assist at the canneries before they left for
England in the autumn on furlough, but after hearing of
the station work I fully agreed that they would do better
to wait until a Jocwm tenens could be found. I brought away
with me an Indian girl for Miss Dickenson’s home, the fourth
from Hazelton. The poor child caught cold directly she
reached the wet and chilly coast, and had to be nursed safely
through a long and dangerous illness. Here it is that Miss
Dickenson’s skill as a trained nurse is of so much value. She
is a most successful girls’ home directress, keeping the girls
together as no one else has been able to. I thank God for
her devotion and liberality.

“ At intervals the steamer stops to load fuel from the
long stacks of firewood cut by the Indians, and at every
village. Wherever there are Indians I am recognized in a
moment, and as the fuel is piled on the ship’s deck I am dis-
pensing medicine on the river’s bank, surrounded by the sick
or their attendants. Time is most precious, as the steamer
cannot afford 1o linger. So the Indians press around me,
pouring a clatter of woes into my ears. ‘I have a hacking
cough ; ’ ‘I have ulcers; ’ ‘my eyes are nearly blind;’ ‘I
want Epsom salts (Qmaunum Kuldas) ;’ ‘I want eye lotion ; ’
‘give me ointment ;’ ‘my child is dying; ’ ‘look! give lini-
ment, all my joints are swollen;’ ‘this man’s arm is
broken ;’ ‘my mother is withering;’ ‘my heart is sick ; ’