Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . nted to this field, and the Board engaged Cyrus Shep-ard and T. S. Edwards, laymen, to accompany them. By this time all the land was in a flame; other de-nominations sharing with ours in the excitement. Aninspection of the table of incomes of the Society willshow how it affected the treasury. One young gen-tleman of New York offered two thousand dollars, (allhis possessions,) as his glad response to this cry of theheathen. But there was no overland route to the an occasional ship passed around Cape Horn, onthat f
Missions and missionary society of the Methodist Episcopal Church . nted to this field, and the Board engaged Cyrus Shep-ard and T. S. Edwards, laymen, to accompany them. By this time all the land was in a flame; other de-nominations sharing with ours in the excitement. Aninspection of the table of incomes of the Society willshow how it affected the treasury. One young gen-tleman of New York offered two thousand dollars, (allhis possessions,) as his glad response to this cry of theheathen. But there was no overland route to the an occasional ship passed around Cape Horn, onthat fearful voyage of twenty thousand miles. The un-known Great American Desert, as the maps indicated,filled with unimaginable perils, stood in the way of go-ing across the continent. At length the missionarieswere informed that Captain N. J. Wyeth, of Cambridge,Massachusetts, was about to return across the RockyMountains, and, being applied to, he consented to theiraccompanying him. They left New England in March,1834, P. L. Edwards, another layman, joining the com-. First Mission-House in Oreg-on. The Flatheads and Oregon. 137 pany at St. Louis. After a most interesting farewellmeeting in St. Louis they struck for Fort Independence,on the extreme frontier, where they met Captain the 25th of April they commenced their long, weari-some, perilous journey. It was the first day of Septem-ber before they had reached Walla Walla, on the Co-lumbia River. On their route, and before they hadcrossed the Rocky Mountains, they learned that thetribe of Flatheads was very small; the chief interest inthem arising out of the practice of flattening their heads,so that the forehead formed an acute angle with the backof the head. This was accomplished in infancy by thepressure of boards tightly strapped upon the head. Themissionaries found other Indians, though not in as greatnumbers as they had anticipated, and they found a fewwhite adventurers, some of whom had never heard agospel sermon
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