FATHER MORICE

how these Indians profited by the teaching of
their missionary. In this Father Morice
himself was a chief actor and, had the Indian
law or code prevailed, would have been
meted out death by the Indians. Once in the
month of June, when the spring freshets
render the Fraser river, because of the swol-
len tides, very dangerous for navigation,
Father Morice left Fort George by canoe
with two Indians desirous of visiting the
“land of the horizon” and the ‘‘sky water”
as the Indians call the sea, meaning, thereby,
that in the open you can see nothing but sky
and water. Arrived at Fort George Canon,
which is made up of rocky islands, leaving
but one very narrow place for the canoe to
follow, the two Indians, Louis and his com-
panion, the married son of the village chief,
after having carried most of the goods or
baggage to the lower end of the portage, un-
dertook to shoot the rapids. Father Morice
was sitting just below the rapids when sud-
denly he heard a shrill cry which seemed to
emerge from the water, and rushing to the
shore saw nothing but the maddened waves
springing up inendless spray. A second cry
and then, to his dismay, he saw Louis, alone,

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