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 Greenlander.--Delight of the Esquimaux in religious
exercises.--Order of the congregations--distressing events,
apostasy of Kapik--awful end of Jacob--peaceful end of
believers--Judith, Joanna.--Revival among the communicants.--A
feast by a Christian brother to the Esquimaux.--Winter
arrangements.--Childrens' meetings--schools.--The brethren's
settlements contrasted with the heathen.--Progress of religion
at the different stations.--Books printed in the Esquimaux
language.--Number of the settled Esquimaux.--Epidemic at
Nain--its consequences.--General view of the mission. 238

CHAPTER VII.
Desire of the heathen to hear the Gospel.--Brethren meditate a
new settlement--voyage to explore the country.--Quiet course of
the mission--advantages of their church discipline.--Death of
Burghardt.--Exertions of the aged survivors.--Schreiber,
superintendant, arrives.--Anxiety of the native Christians to
attend the ordinances of religion.--Advantages of the Bible as
a school-book.--Four missionaries unexpectedly carried to
England.--Baptized Esquimaux seduced by traders.--Perilous
voyage of the returning missionaries--striking accident.--
Schreiber retires from the superintendance--Kohlmeister
succeeds--his journeyings to Okkak, to Nain.--Stability of
the work of God at Nain--hopeful deaths--conversion and
recovery of a young native.--Remarkable preservation of an
Esquimaux youth. 269

CHAPTER VIII.
Fiftieth anniversary of the missionary vessel's first arrival
in Labrador--jubilee of the mission celebrated at Nain.--
Summary view of the success of the gospel in Labrador during
that period.--Instance of maternal affection.--Esquimaux
contribute to the Bible Society.--British sloop of war,
Clinker, visits Hopedale.--Captain Martin's testimony to the
good effect of the brethren's labours--visits Nain and
Okkak--consequences of his favourable report. 304

CHAPTER IX.
The Brethren obtain a further grant of land on the east coast
of Labrador--projected fourth settlement delayed.--Progress of
the three settlements in the interval.--Instances of wonderful
preservation--Ephraim--of Conrad, Peter, and Titus.--Report of
the Superintendant, Kohlmeister, on the general state of the
Mission.--Letter from Brother and Sister Kmoch, to a friend in
Edinburgh.--Commencement and progress of Hebron, the fourth
station. 318

THE MORAVIANS IN LABRADOR.