nn ye Teeth ahi oe CANADIAN HISTORY READERS i invented signs. By this means he was able to furnish the Indians with plenty of useful information. Ever since, these Carrier Indians have been corresponding with each other and have even written their one-time missionary. This invented system is very methodical and very easy and does not entail any spelling process. One Indian is said to have acquired it in two winter evenings. in truth, knowing this syllabary invented by . this learned and zealous missionary is know- ing how to read. In the fourteen or fifteen works which Father Morice has written he brings us into the most intimate relation with his life as a missionary as well as setting forth the char- acter of the Indians among whom he labored for many years, in his book: Au Pays de [Ours Noir: Chez les Sauvages de la Co- lombie Britannique (In the Land of the Black Bear: Among the Savages of British Columbia). This is, too, a valuable anthro- pological, sociological, ethnical and linguis- tic work. Nothing has escaped the obser- vation of the good missionary as he passed from village to village, from camp to camp of 18