FATHER MORICE

terrible exertion he had gone through in the
course of that fateful night confined him to
his room for quite a few weeks thereafter.
This was but one of his many more or less
similar experiences. As he was an explorer
no less than a missionary, he travelled thou-
sands of miles in search of geographical data
as well as of souls—though these were, of
course, the main object of his quest—being
on the wing sometimes many days, nay
weeks, at a stretch. He was once nine days
in succession on horseback; another time he
painfully trudged on foot along the rocks
and perpetual snows of a chain of high
mountains for eleven days without stopping,
except a few hours on Sunday. Nor was this
apparent disregard for the sanctity of the
Lord’s day imputable to him: hunger and
unexpected delays in reaching half-starving
Indians assembled te receive him in the
wilderness left no other course open to him.
He was once three full days without eat-
ing, while another time he was delivered
from impending starvation by clouds of
mosquitoes which drove a bear into the
waters of the stream he was ascending, after
having been several days on short commons.

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