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The Substance of a Journal During a Residence at the Red River Colony, British North America, and Frequent Excursions Among the North West American Indians in the Years 1820, 1821, 1822, 1823

by John West

2019-01-26 00:12:39

We live in a day when the most distant parts of the earth are opening as the sphere of Missionary labours. The state of the heathen world is becoming better known, and the sympathy of British Christians has been awakened, in zealous endeavours to eva ... Read more
We live in a day when the most distant parts of the earth are opening as the sphere of Missionary labours. The state of the heathen world is becoming better known, and the sympathy of British Christians has been awakened, in zealous endeavours to evangelize and soothe its sorrows. In these encouraging signs of the times, the Author is induced to give the following pages to the public, from having traversed some of the dreary wilds of North America, and felt deeply interested in the religious instruction and amelioration of the condition of the natives. They are wandering, in unnumbered tribes, through vast wildernesses, where generation after generation have passed away, in gross ignorance and almost brutal degradation. Less

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File size142.702 KB
Print pages360
PublisherPublic Domain Books
Publication date2009-03-10
LanguageEnglish
ISBN9780666964687,
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John West (1809 – 1888) was a Scottish inventor and businessman who emigrated to Canada, California and later Oregon where he operated a cannery and exported tuna to Great Britain. The Pelling St...

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