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"If a man had dropped flat and squirmed along until in the shelter of the engine-room ventilators, he could have run forward bending low, you know without your seeing him." "But you were standing here, to starboard!" "I tell you, that match was blinding me," Lanyard affirmed irritably. "Besides, I wasn't looking except at my sister wondering what was the matter." Collison started.
The eyebrows achieved an effect of studied weariness. "And you saw nobody, monsieur? And Collison didn't, either?" Lanyard shook his head to each question. "Still, it is possible ." Monk cut him short impatiently. "All gammon all in her eye! No man bigger than a cockroach could have smuggled himself aboard this yacht without my being told.
On our guests being seated I gave them a short address, and after prayer, in company with Mr. and Mrs. Collison, shook hands with them all. They then were quartered round the village, and a very exciting scene ensued, all the villagers literally scrambling for the guests.
"Our Christmas-eve was spent in practising, with a band of twenty young men, a new Christmas hymn in Tsimshean, which I managed to prepare for the occasion. About 1.30 on Christmas morning we reassembled, when Mr. Collison and myself accompanied the twenty waits to sing round the village, carrying the harmonium and concertina with us.
Collison is studying the language of the Tsimshean Natives, when proficient in it, which he soon will be, judging from the progress he has already made, he will labour among the Indians of Queen Charlotte's Islands. "Under Mr. Duncan's instructions the Indians of Metlakahtla have already made great strides in the direction of civilization and Christianity.
From time to time, when the whistle was still, the calls of seamen operating the sounding machine could be heard; but their reports were monotonously uniform, the waters were not yet shoal enough for the lead to find bottom at that pace. The watch was being changed as Lanyard started forward, with the tail of an eye on the bridge. Mr. Collison relieved Mr.
Collison describes a remarkable peculiarity of the Hydah villages "In approaching a Hydah village from a distance one is reminded of a harbour with a number of ships at anchor, owing to the great number of poles of all sizes erected in front of every house.
"Another a young man is already obeying the injunction, 'Let him that heareth say, Come'; and at the salmon fishing and elsewhere has endeavoured to gather his friends together for prayer and praise." And on March 20th, 1879, reviewing the winter's work, Mr. Collison again wrote: "In October last, having mastered the difficulties of the language, I was induced to commence a weekly prayer-meeting.
Accordingly, in November, 1877, Bishop Bompas, reached Metlakahtla after a long and difficult journey across the Rocky and Cascade Mountains, and the wilderness of lakes and rivers stretching between those chains. He remained three months on the coast, visited the outlying stations, confirmed 124 of the Christian Indians, ordained Mr. Collison deacon and priest, and assisted Mr.
At the same time he saw Captain Monk, who had been on the bridge with the officer of the watch for several hours, come aft with weary shoulders sagging, and go below by the saloon companionway. And Lanyard smiled knowingly and assured himself that went well ça va bien! his star held still in the ascendant. There remained on the bridge only Mr. Collison and the man at the wheel.
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