86 Snapshots from the North Pacifc.

“From Kincolith, next day we sailed to Echo Cove, the
summer residence of Mr. and Mrs. McCullagh. During the
fishing season they, with their httle daughter, contrive to
be happy and extremely useful in a hut consisting of one
room with a narrow lean-to, as we call this kind of shed.
Wonderful parsonages some of them are! I will suppose
your committee room is at least say 55ft. by 28ft. Into
that space you could set up the two parsonages at Echo Cove
and Sunnyside, my picturesque old palace at Hazelton, and
leave a choice of situations to pitch my tent on. A cab-
man’s shelter would make a commodious parsonage by divid-
ing it into two parts, thus adding a luxury.

“We called again at Kincolith on returning, where con-
trary winds detained us two days, which our hosts would
gladly have seen extended to many more. This detention
gave us a chance of recruiting our strength, for the short
nights and long days induce weariness.”

The last extract of this chapter, written November,
1893, relates to an interesting opening amone another
tribe :—

“T have had but a glimpse of the Kitkatlas this year, but
enough to see that there is continuous progress. It is probable
that one of the first baptized of the Kitkatla Christians will
be sent as missionary to the Kitlaups. I visited the latter
in June, and found them willing to put themselves under his
instruction. They are a very backward tribe, residing at the
head of one of the most beautiful inlets I have ever seen,
distant about 180 miles. Several of them are able to speak
Zimshian very well, and through them I communicated with
the rest. The chief is an enormous. man, larger than
Sheuksh, who married his brother chief’s sister. I cannot
but think that Sheuksh’s influence is powerfully felt for good
by his brother-in-law, and this may account for the tribe’s
readiness to receive a native teacher and erect a school-
house,”