ne

CHAPTER I]

Our Sky Pilots and Their Boats

Up North with the Thomas Crosby. We have
talked about the land and the people. Now
let us say something about our men and their boats.

Farthest up coast, north of Vancouver Island, is
Rev. R. C. Scott, B.A., commonly called ‘‘Bob”’
Scott. He knocks about on the Thomas Crosby.
He has headquarters at Queen Charlotte village and
works around Graham, Moresby, and other Queen
Charlotte Islands, through one of the meanest
stretches of water on the coast. He visits settlers
and camps wherever he finds them and in the fishing
season takes on an additional fifty or more canneries.
Besides all this he is responsible for a good share of
the Indian work. Scott has been on the work for
ten years, first at Cape Mudge and now in this north-
ern section. We have no missionary more accept-
able to those he serves than Scott. He is a fine
singer and musician and his wife is even better.
When Mr. and Mrs. Scott “blow into camp,’’ even
the spell of the poker game is broken, and the bunk
houses empty into the cookhouse to hear the mis-
sionary and his wife sing, and a little preaching goes
all right along with the singing. But the mission-
aries’ singing is often the very best kind of preaching.
The hymns carry the joyous old message to hearts
which the spoken word might not reach. After

12