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 the ceremony of the planting of the Cross, in eight different places, and founded four frame churches which were constructed by the savages.

On an average, each village or tribe consists of about two hundred souls.

In the neighborhood of Fort Alexandria the number of souls amounts to                          1255 About Fort George,                            343 In the neighborhood of Frazer's Lake,         258 "    "            Stuart's Lake,          211 "    "            McLeod's Lake,           80 "    "            Fort Babine,           1190 "    "            Bear Lake,[172]         801 Total number of souls,                       4138

Population on Thompson's river, or on the land of the Sioushwaps or Atnass.[173]

The number of Sioushwaps, so called, is       583 "  of Okinaganes,                      685 *