Stories from Indian wigwams and northern camp-fires / by Egerton Ryerson Young.

  • Young, Egerton Ryerson, 1840-1909.
Date:
1894
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Credit: Stories from Indian wigwams and northern camp-fires / by Egerton Ryerson Young. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    BY THE SAME AUTHOR. BY CANOE AND DOG-TRAIN AMONG THE CREE AND SALTEAUX INDIANS. Introduction by REV. MARK GUY PEARSE. FOURTEENTH THOUSAND. With Photographic Portraits of Rev. E. R. YOUNG and Mrs. YOUNG, Map, and Thirty-three Illustrations. 3s. 6d. ‘ One of the most fascinating volumes of missionary adventure published in our time.”—Methodist Free Churches Magazine. “ As we turn page after page of this book, we meet with crisp and even humorous incidents, thrilling escapes, privations patiently borne, graphic sketches of native life and character, and, best of all, evidences on all hands of the power of the Gospel of the Lord Jesus Christ.”—Illustrated Missionary News. “ Young and old will read this amazing story with delight. His heroic journeys through the snow are described in a way that will secure the attention of all.”—Sword and Trowel. “ A more interesting and delightful book I have not read for many a day.”—Good Company. “ A thrilling and deeply interesting narrative.”—Barnsley Chronicle. “ One of the most thrilling narratives of missionary life and adventure ever published.”—Birmingham Daily Gazette. “ Even readers who have not the smallest sympathy with foreign missionary work may follow with interest this simple, straightforward, unvarnished narrative of a life of thrilling adventure and heroic endur- ance.”—Literary World. “ Ought to be almost as fascinating as ‘ Robinson Crusoe ’ itself, to such as like stories of wild and sometimes dangerous adventure, to enliven their evenings by the fireside.”—Scots Magazine. “ The boys especially will have a ready ear for the adventures with canoes and dog-trains, whilst all the time, they will be within sound of the Gospel music with which the book is filled.”—Divine Life. “We have seldom met with a book of more thrilling interest.”— Christian Miscellany. “ It is a marvellously interesting story of heroic adventure.”— Methodist New Connexion Magazine. “ Will prove an entertaining book for young and old.”—Leeds Mercury. “ The book should have a place in every Methodist home, especially where there arc boys.”—King's Highway. London : CHARLES H. KELLY, 2, Castle Street, City Road, E.C.;