Page:Life and journals of Kah-ke-wa-quo-na-by.djvu/305

 — Floor and cupboard poor — bed tolerably good — one table no chairs — hearth poor — one woman making baskets — one sewing — one idle. . — Floor, &c., neat — no one at home. . — Floor not laid — uninhabited at present. . — Chairs, tables, and beds good — cupboard poor — floor and things in general dirty and out of place. . — One curtain bed, good — cupboard, good — table good but dusty — floor clean — woman making light bread. This house looked ahnesheshin like Shahkahnoshshequa's. . — Table and floor dusty — beds pretty good; three old fashioned chairs — cupboard poor — no one at home. Passed by one Indian Camp, a specimen of old times. . — Floor poor and dirty — corn husks, &c, lying all about the floor — cupboard very dirty — beds poor — table poor and dirty. . — No one at home — all looked well in the house. — Female school — 19 scholars present — 8 read in New Testament — 6 write — 10 girls looked neat and clean — the rest dirty and ragged — hands clean, and hair combed, except 3 or 4 — the floor clean. The condition of the female children on this Island is much altered for the better, to what they were when the Missionaries first commenced among them. Sister Brink appears to be a fine young woman, of amiable disposition, and takes a deep interest in the improvement of the Indians. She laboured among the Schoogog Indians for some time, until they removed from that place to Lake Simcoe and to Mud Lake. After which she was employed by the Superintendent as a teacher to the female school on this island. School — scholars 32 present — 10 read in Testament — 8 in English Reader — 17 write — 12 in Arithmetic — 13 in English Grammar — in spelling — and about half a dozen in one syllables. Most all looked clean, except a few who were both ragged and dirty. Brother Hale the teacher, appears to be a