scattered over and around the corpse. At my suggestion, they departed
from the usual custom of dressing and painting the dead, and, instead
of placing the corpse in a sitting posture, they consented to place it
on the back. The remains were decently interred, and I gave an address
and prayed; thus their custom of placing the dead in hollowed poles,
carved and erected near the houses, has been broken through, and since
this occurred many of the remains which were thus placed have been
buried."

The first Hydah to come out distinctly as a Christian was a chief
named Cowhoe, concerning whom an interesting incident is related. One
day he brought a book to Mr. Collison, saying it had been given him
many years before by the captain of an English man-of-war, and asking
what it was. It proved to be a Testament, with this inscription on the
fly-leaf--"_From Capt. Prevost, H. M. S. 'Satellite,' trusting that
the bread thus cast upon the waters may be found after many days._"
More than twenty years had passed away, and now that prayer was
answered, though not by the instrumentality of the gift that bore the
record of it. Cowhoe became a regular attendant at Mr. Collison's
services and school, and we are told that at a meeting held on the Day
of Intercession for Missions, Nov. 30th, 1877, he "prayed very
earnestly for the spread of the truth amongst his brethren." When
Admiral Prevost visited the coast in the summer of 1878, Cowhoe and his
father went to Metlakahtla in a canoe on purpose to see the benefactor
of their race. Of this visit the Admiral gives the following account:--

"Edensaw, the chief of the Hydah nation, arrived with his son, Cowhoe,
and Mr. Collison. They had heard of my visit, and were anxious, to see
me "face to face." I knew him in 1853, when I first visited the Queen
Charlotte Islands in command of H.M.S. _Virago_. An American