This text is missing some spaces, please add them: Hisrelativesandfriendshadeverimploredhim,ifhefeltcalledtoimprovemankind,tolookaroundhimathome:thelotoftheCanadianIndians,orevenoftheCanadians,mightbebettered.
His relatives and friends had ever implored him, if he felt called to improve mankind, to look around him at home: the lot of the Canadian Indians, or even of the Canadians, might be bettered.