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of ccurse we see it yet more plainly. Our school children
are far advanced beyond all others. I am most glad to hear
and see such testimonies. |

“ Dr. Ardagh, from Essington as headquarters, is expected
to regularly visit all the other little fishing towns, so render-
ing good service. The work is arduous. Mr. Gurd has been
most successful at Claxton, where he has been instrumental
in building a very pretty and substantial church to seat 150
persons. The 8.P.C.K. has kindly made a grant of £20
towards it. Mrs. Gurd’s activity has largely contributed to
the success. Miss Dickenson and Mr. Keen, in succession
after Miss West, and now Mr. and Mrs. Hogan, have worked
at Sunnyside, chiefly among the Indians, who come over
annually from Mr. Dunean’s ill-fated station in Alaska to
work in this diocese. Many of them call on me and behave
most courteously. They deplore the blunder they made, and
cannot understand why they may not be allowed to enjoy the
privileges their brethren here possess. Not only is the Holy
Communion forbidden them, but also Baptism. Several
infants of theirs were baptized by Mr. Gurd. Last week they
asked Miss West to write to Mr. Duncan on their behalf ito
obtain his consent to her instructing their children with ours.

“Miss West has spent already three months at the Inver-
ness fishery, where she has won many hearts. Until Sunny-
side could be supplied she held school there once a day and
once at Inverness, rowing her own boat over the mile and
a half between the two places. Swift are the tides and often
difficult the landing on the slippery rocks ; but in all weather
she pursued her steady course, so that she has become an
expert sailor, handling her sixteen-foot boat all alone as
well as any man on our staff. She had it all to learn—to her
cost. Once she got into serious difficulties, being capsized in
deep and rough water, and was half drowned before she
could climb back into the boat. It was a risk to appoint a
lady to such a station single-handed where there are some
hundreds of Indians, Chinese, Japanese, and a band of white
men unaccustomed to social or religious restraints. The issue
has justified the methods. The sick have been assiduously

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