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60 Snapshots from the North Pacific.

be peeled off before I could set the stethoscope on her chest.
Then ‘the odour! Such poor old Heathen never change or
cleanse their clothes until, for obvious reasons, the torment
becomes past endurance. My ragged friend had not reached
that stage. The Christians are never in such case; cleanli-
ness with them attends on godliness.

“TI never choose to encamp heside such a crowd but at a
distance not too far to be traversed after supper by lantern
light. In such cases I spend an hour beside their camp fire
speaking of the kingdom of God. Sometimes my crew go with
me, and then we sing as well as pray, which is very delightful
on the river’s bank or in among the forest trees when it is
stormy.

“Their dogs are villainous thieves because ill-fed; they
howl, they cannot bark lke our faithful companions. One
night, while I slept, they entered my tent, and before I
was quite roused by their noise they had gnawed through my
provision box. I awoke in time to save my victuals, and
drove them helter skelter from the tent. But they are
dangerous brutes to attack with bare feet. When the canoes
are deeply Inden the dogs have to find their way along the
banks, which are sometimes very precipitous. Then their
sagacity is remarkable. In winter they are used to draw
the sleighs, and therefore are valuable. We met an old man
seeking his lost dogs, which wa had seen the day before and
tried to entice them to follow. Delighted was the old man
when he heard his dogs were not many miles below, and on
he trudged to save them.

“This was kinder than some other Indians we passed one
day in their camp. They told a sad story of three hunters
being lost high up among the mountains, but they made no
search, which surprised me. Towards sundown that day we
were pushing on in-shore, under some steep cliffs, when we
heard strange sounds overhead. There were the three lost
men laden with parts of mountain sheep, so that they could
not starve. The fresh snow had covered their tracks so that
they became bewildered. We set them right with much