Mr. Collison had visited several tribes at a distance, both on the
islands more to the south, and on the coast of Alaska to the north. At
Skidegate Inlet, which divides the two principal of the Queen Charlotte
Islands, he had a particularly warm reception.

In a letter, dated March 21st, 1879, he wrote that he had thirty names
on the list of catechumens, most of them heads of families.

Mr. Collison has since removed to Metlakahtla, to undertake the
pastoral and school-work there. His place at Massett has been taken by
Mr. G. Sneath, a zealous young missionary artizan, who twice went to
East Africa to join the Victoria Nyanza Mission, and twice was ordered
home by the consular surgeon at Zanzibar, and who has now essayed
missionary service in a colder climate.




XI.

OUTLYING MISSIONS. III.--FORT RUPERT.


Fort Rupert is a trading post at the northern end of Vancouver's
Island, some three hundred miles south of Metlakahtla. In that
neighbourhood are found the Quoquolt Indians, and among them a Mission
has lately been begun. This is, however, but a tardy response to their
repeated entreaties for a teacher. It has always been a problem beyond
their power to solve, why, when Mr. Duncan first arrived on the coast,