On the Indian Trail, Stories of Missionary Work among Cree and Saulteaux
Indians, by Reverend Egerton Ryerson Young.
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In his Introduction to the book the author tells us that some of the
stories here recounted are new, while others have been published in
others of his works. Thus, if you have read "By Canoe and Dog-Train"
you will experience a feeling of deja vue.
Like so many nineteenth century clergymen, the author spends a lot of
time telling us how very holy he is. But I suppose we have a different
view of how we ought to tell others how much time we spend praying.
Things are different these days.
This book is one of many to be found on the excellent Early Canadiana
Online. We used the new (2005) ABBYY screen grabbing tool to capture
the images of the pages, using the third of the five sizes available.
This size was chosen because the image of each page just fits the
text of the page on the screen. From other points of view it would have
been better if we could have used the largest size, which we could not
easily do for the following reason. The original scans were far from
being nice clean ones, so there were many misreads. We used the
Athelstane editing system to produce the final text as we have published
it.
Had we used the full-sized scans it is quite possible that there would
have been just the same number of misreads in the OCRed text, because
of the number of bits of hair and fluff, scratches and other blemishes
in the scans. So it is lucky that the Athelstane system can trap most
of the misreads.
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ON THE INDIAN TRAIL, STORIES OF MISSIONARY WORK AMONG CREE AND SAULTEAUX
INDIANS, BY REVEREND EGERTON RYERSON YOUNG.