rein-deer-hunt.--Third settlement--Hopedale founded.--Remarkable
preservation of the Missionaries. 97

CHAPTER IV.
Esquimaux visit the English settlements--pernicious
consequences--dreadful accident--famine--unexpected supply
of food and skins.--Emigration from Okkak--missionaries' care
of the wanderers, who return disappointed.--Terrible tales
from the south.--Inquirers separated from the heathen.--Popish
priest attempts to seduce the converts.--Brother Rose inspects
Hopedale.--Karpik the sorcerer.--Peter's fall.--Visits to
the south renewed.--Parting address of the brethren.--Epidemic.--
Death of Daniel--of Esther.--Conversion and peaceful end of
Tuglavina.--Last days of Mikak.--Indians come to Hopedale.--
Rose's remarks on the internal state of the missions.--Instances
of the power of grace among the Esquimaux--striking observation
of one of the baptized.--Jonathan's letter to the Greenlanders.--
Affecting confession of Solomon.--Conduct of a young woman
sought in marriage by a heathen.--State of the settlements at the
close of the century.--Prospects begin to brighten.--Remarkable
phenomenon.--Avocations of the missionaries--their trials--
preservation of their vessels--of their settlements--their
brotherly love. 154

CHAPTER V.
Variable appearances of the mission at Nain and Okkak--more
favourable at Hopedale.--Death of Benjamin.--Spirit of love
among the converted.--Happy communion and close of the
year.--Providential escape of the Resolution.--New epoch in
Labrador.--A remarkable awakening commences at Hopedale--
meetings--schools.--Letter from a converted Esquimaux to his
teacher.--Industry of the awakened.--Declension of religion
at Nain and Okkak.--State of the children at Hopedale.--
Progress of the adults in knowledge, love, and zeal--instances.--
Striking conversion of two young Esquimaux, its effects upon
their countrymen.--Awakening spreads to Nain and to Okkak.--Zeal
of the converts towards the heathen rouses backsliders.--
Behaviour of the awakened in sickness, and the prospect of
death.--Remarkable accessions from the heathen.--The son of a
sorcerer. 201

CHAPTER VI.
Mutual affection of the Christian Esquimaux and
Greenlanders--their correspondence--letter from Timothy, a
baptized