David Sallosalton
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is part of: British Columbia Historical Books Collection
creator: Crosby, Thomas, 1840-1914
issued: 2017-06-20
issued: 1906
description: "Cover title. The story of an Indian boy, a worker for the Methodist coast missions, who died in 1873 at the age of nineteen." -- Lowther, B. J., & Laing, M. (1968). A bibliography of British Columbia: Laying the foundations, 1849-1899. Victoria, BC: University of Victoria, p. 168.
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extent: 62 pages : photographs, advertisements ; 17 cm
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note: ©alïwalton r~ mm IMil! :;;CEi?oëBç KLsébt ^iVm'^ Tir- ïï>av>io Sallosalton H U?oung /Ifcisstonan? 5ftero " £#)H ! Sallos, Sallos, don't go away. (g Stay with us, and grow up to be a great chief among your people. " Don't go to the white people ; they will teach you to forget your own mother, they will teach you things that will make the medicinemen angry, so that they will kill you. Oh, Sallos, Sallos, my boy, don't go !" Thus it was that an Indian mother pleaded with her boy, who was anxious to go to the missionary's home and learn more of " Mother," said he in DAVID SALLOSALTON. Jesus and His love. his native Indian language, simple and childlike, " Jesus calling me to work for 1 V Him. He love me, the missionary says. I go learn of Him more, and then come back and teach you all about Him. Our people are wrong to fight so and kill one another. I want to grow up a good man. I am sorry to leave you, but I must go, for I cannot be good here." It was in the Indian village of Nanaimo that the hero of our story lived, whom, for the present we will know by his baby name of Satana. His home was in one of the large lodges built of cedar slabs in a rather rough manner. These rough cedar slabs were split out by hand from large blocks, by means of stone hammers and long wooden wedges, after which they were fastened together by withes, or strips of strong bark. No nails had come into use as yet, and it required considerable dexterity in fitting to make a home that would protect against wind and weather. The houses were often as long as one hundred feet by thirty, and afforded living room for a number of families. The house in which Satana lived had no floor other than the ground, and the smoke from the fires built on this ground floor in different parts of the house got out the best way it could. These houses were 2 partly partitioned off, to afford sleeping rooms for the severaf* families who might occupy them. In winter these houses were the scene of many a wild heathen danc…
note: Other copies: http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/503431827
has type: Books
identifier: E90.S24 C7
is shown at: 10.14288/1.0348598
language: English
provider: Vancouver : University of British Columbia Library
publisher: Toronto : The Department of Missionary Literature of the Methodist Church
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source: Original Format: University of British Columbia. Library. Rare Books and Special Collections. E90.S24 C7
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