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CHAPTER V.

IN JOURNEYINGS OFTEN.

“My heart has gone before my feet,
Which now shall tread the bradl ye beat
Through forests new

WO letters were received from the Bishop in 1891,
giving an account of a journey up the Skeena River,
one addressed to the C.M.S. and published in the

Gleaner, the other to the 8.P.G. The latter, being more
full of description and interesting detail, is given here, as
published in the 8.P.G. Annual Report of 1890-91. It is
dated December Ld5th, 1890 :—

“ The excessively stormy weather has delayed the expected
mail steamer, and given me a day’s grace for giving some
account of the Skeena and Cassiar Mission work.

“TI am too old a sailor to dwell on perils by water, though
sailors are licensed to spin yarns. Whoever goes about a
great deal by the small and frail craft that often do duty
for missionaries’ boats on the river or on the open sea must
needs get into alarming situations. To the beginner they
are terrifying, and, of course, sometimes dangerous. But
the old salt has stendier nerves, and, because of oft deliver-
ances, comes to think he has a charmed life. Some time
ago, in returning from a visit to an Indian Mission where
I heard the missionary was sick, I was caught in so furious