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Chapter 2 FIRST MISSIONARY EXPERIENCES.

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were present. They all seemed most anxious to have a Church of England Mission established in their midst, as many of them, inclusive of their venerable old chief, Wawanosh, were alr

Saugeen Indians. I had with me as interpreter a young Indian named Andrew Jacobs, his Indian name being Wagimah-wishkung, and for short I called him Wagimah. At Owen

Cloud Island, and King's Point, and arrived at length, after a voyage of eight hours, at Cape Croker. We found that there were about 350 Ojebway Indians in the place, the majority of whom were Roman Catholics or Methodists: they had good houses, some log, but mostly neat little frame weather-boarded buildings; the land, however, was much neglected, very little attempt being made at farming. A Church of England service was conducted on Sundays by an Indian Catechist named Angus. The Chief's name was Tabegw

ere about 250 Ojebway Indians on this Reserve, and nearly all Methodists. They had a resident Methodist Missionary and a place of worship in course of erection. I at once came to the conclusion that it would be unsuitable for us to attempt any Mission work in this place; and when we bade adieu to Mrs. Madwayosh we drove on to the Sauble Reserve, five miles further. A most dreadful road it was the whole way. We had both to get down and lead the horse more than half the distance, and then our traps were in the most imminent danger of jumping out as the buggy went jolting and rolling on over huge boulders and logs an

way into the States, or had joined the Methodists. Waubesee, his wife, children, and grandchildren, numbered eighteen in all, and he said that the whole number of Indians on the Reserve was about 250. He seemed to be an intelligent

reached it. My interpreter left me here to return to his home by the way we had come, and

Nelles' house. From there I went to visit the Indians on the New Credit Reserve, a considerable distance off. I called on Chief Sawyer, a tall, fine man, with a s

d be established among them. On the 11th of August a Council was held, at which some fifty Indians attended. They sat about indiscriminately on benches, some smoking their pipes, others chewing tobacco. In a few plain words I told them, how it was my own earnest desire to devote myself as a Missionary to the Indians, and how I had been sent by a great Society in England to search out and teach the Ojebway Indians of the western part of Canada. I had already, I said, visited the Indians of Cape Croker, Saugeen, Sauble, and the Grand River, and had now made up my mind to make Sarnia my head-quarters, and to build a church in their midst. We would not, I said, put up a large expensive one,-we would begin with a small rough one, and s

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Contents

Missionary Work Among the Ojebway Indians
Chapter 1 HOW IT CAME ABOUT THAT I WENT TO CANADA.
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Chapter 2 FIRST MISSIONARY EXPERIENCES.
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Chapter 3 OUR ARRIVAL AT SARNIA.
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Chapter 4 KETTLE POINT.
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Chapter 5 INDIAN NAMES GIVEN.
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Chapter 6 CHRISTMAS ON THE RESERVE.
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Chapter 7 MISSION WORK AT SARNIA.
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Chapter 8 THE BISHOP'S VISIT.
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Chapter 9 FIRST VISIT TO GARDEN RIVER.
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Chapter 10 BAPTISM OF PAGANS.
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Chapter 11 THE RED RIVER EXPEDITION.
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Chapter 12 CHANGES IN PROSPECT.
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Chapter 13 ROUGHING IT.
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Chapter 14 CHIEF LITTLE PINE.
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Chapter 15 OUR FIRST WINTER IN ALGOMA.
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Chapter 16 CHIEF BUHKWUJJENENE'S MISSION.
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Chapter 17 AN INDIAN CHIEF IN ENGLAND.
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Chapter 18 A TRIAL OF FAITH.
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Chapter 19 LEARNING TO KNOW MY PEOPLE.
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Chapter 20 A WEDDING AND A DEATH.
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Chapter 21 THE OPENING OF THE FIRST SHINGWAUK HOME.
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Chapter 22 FIRE! FIRE!
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Chapter 23 AFTER THE FIRE.
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Chapter 24 PROSPECTS OF RE-BUILDING.
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Chapter 25 LAYING THE FOUNDATION STONE.
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Chapter 26 A TRIP TO BATCHEEWAUNING.
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Chapter 27 THE WINTER OF 1874-5.
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Chapter 28 THE NEW SHINGWAUK HOME.
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Chapter 29 RUNAWAY BOYS.
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Chapter 30 CHARLIE AND BEN.
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Chapter 31 A TRIP UP LAKE SUPERIOR.
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Chapter 32 COASTING AND CAMPING.
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Chapter 33 UP THE NEEPIGON RIVER.
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Chapter 34 THIRTY YEARS WAITING FOR A MISSIONARY.
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Chapter 35 THE PAGAN BOY-NINGWINNENA.
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Chapter 36 BAPTIZED-BURIED.
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Chapter 37 THE WAWANOSH HOME.
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Chapter 38 A SAD WINTER.
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Chapter 39 WILLIAM SAHGUCHEWAY.
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Chapter 40 OUR INDIAN HOMES.
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Chapter 41 A POW-WOW AT GARDEN RIVER.
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Chapter 42 GLAD TIDINGS FROM NEEPIGON.
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