PRAYING FOR QUEEN VICTORIA.
In the Arctic village of Musroikuk, 150 miles, north of‘Fort Yukon, a tribe of Indians Was recently visited by a Church of England missionary, who found that, the tribopwas still praying for-t jin health of Queen Victoria, and using a Bible translated info their language in .1804,. Archdeacon. McDonald, the pioneer of the Yukon find Mackenzie missionary" of the Church of England, learned the Yukon Indian language and translated the Bible into that dialect years' ago, and as there have been few if W 7 whites in Musroikuk who »poko their \ M IC Indians in consequence have been living politically in the middle nineteenth century. Another curious fpet concerning the tribe is that they arc citi7J>nti of the United States technically, despite the fact that for years they have been' praying for a British rule ,end professed a British creed,. ~ ■
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16091, 3 April 1923, Page 11
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144PRAYING FOR QUEEN VICTORIA. Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLIX, Issue 16091, 3 April 1923, Page 11
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