66 Snapshots from the North Pacife.

in my letters, the settled conviction that a great blessing
was in store for the Kitkatlas. It was no fancy picture, but
one drawn by the reasonable faith that time has justified.
Now, as we attend to Luke’s recital, our hearts are aglow
with gratitude. Affliction is justly regarded as the most
potent factor in humbling the soul, and revealing to us the
Saviour; but the sympathetic gladness that turns to His
throne, because it glorifies the Victorious King, also melts
the soul and shapes it to lowliness.

“«*Itha goudi eshk gish Sheuksh, were Luke’s first words,
which, being interpreted, is, ‘He has perfected his promise,
has Sheuksh. Had we a peal of bells I would have them
rung because the most able, most stubborn, and boldest
warrior of Satan has submitted to Christ, and publicly, before
his own tribe, has promised to serve Him as long as He keeps
him alive cn earth. Outworks, one by one, have been taken
during the last two years, now the banner of the Crucified
floats above the citadel !

“Shenksh is a man of powerful build, with a very massive
head, in which are set eyes that never look below yours,
a mouth with jaws like a vice, but which easily smiles and
breaks into a hearty laugh, dimpling his plump cheeks. He
is a fine fellow—a chief of chiefs. He was not by birth the
heir to this leading position, but has won it by capacity for
affairs and oft-tried courage, although the chief once in
power, and still alive, shrank not from murder to maintain
it. But this Sheuksh, chief of the Kitkatlas (more cor-
rectly spelled Giatkatlas), the last to rally round him the
braves of an old system, that made them as proud and ruth-
less as Moslems, has bowed his head before the Cross.

“Their island home, Laklan, breasts the western ocean,
and is the outermost of an archipelago sheltering the three
mouths of the Skeena river. Yet farther seaward, standing
alone as a sentinel, is an islet called Lak-Kul, fifteen miles
from, Laklan. Out there go the fur-seal hunters each
summer, and thither, for the first time, our hardy mis-
sionary, Mr. Sjtephenson, followed them. Their leisure