"Not a few are enquiring earnestly for the way of life. At a little
social meeting which I had a few days past, the principal chief said:
'I was careless and unconcerned about the message which the white chief
brought us, but I can be so no longer. Even at night, when I lie awake
on my bed, I cry to God to pardon my many sins and save me. I know now
it is true--all true, and I want to be safe in the Ark, even in Jesus
the Saviour'; and he continued at some length exhorting the others to
receive the Word.

"Another chief also spoke with intense earnestness and feeling. He
said, 'A short time since I was blind, and knew nothing of these great
things. But Jesus has opened my eyes, and now I see. Jesus is the way,
and I am in that way now. I am happy, very happy; but one thing keeps
me back, and when that is over, I will seek to be baptized, and live
only for God.'

"This one thing referred to is a giving away of property on account of
a deceased brother whose effects he took charge of, and promised to
give away property, and put up a carved pole to his memory. As he has
already promised, and given notice to the tribe, he does not wish to
draw back.

"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:--