was no hope for us to go on.  And so it was.  The next day I gave from our provisions as much as I could, but we had not very much, and I could not give everything away because we might afterwards be caught out in a snowstorm, which often happens, where we then have to live in a snow house until the storm is over.  I gave now coffee for 19 persons, bread we had none, for it always freezes so hard that it is useless.  The poor woman collected all the bread she had and we took as little as possible.  During the day time my dear husband kept different meetings, talked and prayed with them.  For dinner I asked for a large pot and put it on the stove.  I had happily taken some preserved soups and cooked now for all the people in the house, put all our meat balls and broken biscuits into the same pot, and gave now from this dish a plateful to every person in the house.  I had also put some “Liebig” in my box, before I left my home, and was now able to make the best use of it.  It was something touching to see the many hungry children, how they devoured their portion.  Anything like that they have perhaps never tasted before, and would gladly have taken some more, but it was already gone.  In the afternoon my dear husband kept school for the children, told nice stories and instructed them about different things, and the children would have gone on for a long time.  The smell in the house was not so very pleasant, 19 persons in one room, beside this the men smoked their pipes nearly the whole time.  The children were crying and would not obey their parents and the parents are so very weak in this way.

In the evening I gave once more what I possibly could spare, and for the next morning too.  But we really did hunger.

The Lord heard our prayers that we were able to go on the next morning to the next place, but because of the deep snow we could only move on very slowly.  First after 11 hour’s travelling we came in the evening to our next station.  We did hunger more in these three days than we have done in our whole lives.  The next place was a nice clean house, where we restored ourselves again.

In one place we visited an Eskimo.  When we entered the room, what did we see?  A seal living in the midst of their room.  The people had heard of our coming and thus put the monster in the room to thaw it up to feed our dogs with.  The animal was soon taken away.  The house was clean, but small.  In this place we had to sleep on the floor, and we used our blankets to make a couch as well as we could.  A sailcloth was used as a curtain, so that we had something like a separated place for us.  Our two drivers were also in the same room, and they cared for music during the night, for they snored like a saw mill, and when they woke up they smoked their pipes and gave the air in the room such an odor, which I shall not try to describe.  Nevertheless, for all that, we were happy together, and I did not repent one minute to have accompanied my dear good