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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

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