82 Snapshots from the North Pacipe.

“ Rarely do I write of those who die in the Lord, because
a consistent life is a greater triumph than a happy death ;
but the latter is sometimes worthy of remark. The most
inclement winter we have ever known here has been wonder-
fully conducive to health. Ait cur Naas River stations not
a death occurred. Here we lost a young man who had been
long ill. The day he died he asked for writing materials,
and though he was in a state of exhaustion he intended to
write a letter to his brother hving on the Skeena. So he
wrote, ‘My dearest brother,—I am going to Jesus, and I
want you to come.’ His task on earth was done; he could
write no more,

“ An old chieftainess, a woman of great force of character,
who gave to the Society the land on which the Mission
premises are built, had been ailing for more than a year, and
after much suffering passed away. Just before she died,
after having lain many hours im silence, she began to recite
the Apostles’ Creed in Zimshian. Her streneth failed
before she could finish it, but she proceeded, I believe, as far
as ‘He sitteth at the right hand of God.’

“ At present nearly all our staff are concentrated at the

mouths of the Skeena and Naas Rivers, ministering to all
classes of people engaged in the great industry of canning
salmon for foreign markets. Formerly as the Indians dis-
persed from their winter homes the missionary remained
behind and ministered only to the mere handful of feeble
people unable to accompany the rest on their hunting expedi-
tions. Half the year was spent in a solitude.

“Ta 1886 I outhned a plan of following the people. Now
the rule is that the whole year is economized. Services and
school work go on with redoubled energy. Already is plainly
evident the solid results of this continuous labour. Our
young people are steadier and the children more advanced.

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Formerly they forgot in summer what they learnt in winter,
and so the work had to be done over and over again. Now
there is a marked contrast between the behaviour of our
Christians and others, so the employers of labour say, and

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