Husbands and wives were at home in all three houses visited to-day.  Jonathan spells his own name “Jonatan.”  He is a godly and worthy man of mild disposition yet decided Christian character.  His Leah is also a native-helper among her sex, and a chapel servant.  They gave us a friendly welcome.  True, it did not occur to them to ask us to sit down; but our Eskimoes are pleased if one takes a seat in their houses without the asking.  Jonatan’s grandchild was sleeping on one of the beds, and its young mother sat in a corner sewing.  The little harmonium by the wall belonged to her husband, who lives with his parents.  The older people thanked me for the visit, and desired their greetings to the great teachers over the water.

Our second call was on Abraham, or more correctly “Abraha,” for the genius of the Eskimo language always requires a name to end with a vowel.  He is also an excellent and intelligent native assistant.  He and his Pauline were very pleased to see us, and expressed themselves in the same strain as the former couple.  As his harmonium and violin show, he is very musical; indeed, he is a leading member of the Nain choir.

Lastly we called on Matthew and his young wife.  His quiet, rather shy demeanour and humble estimate of himself, as a recently appointed office-bearer in the congregation pleased me well.  Perhaps his house was the neatest and best furnished of the three.

I wish I could have heard Abraham or Jonathan speak at some service.  I am told their addresses correspond with their dispositions.  The former is warm, and vigorous, the latter more calm and affectionate in tone.  Matthew has yet to overcome his diffidence.

By the way, when I went over to the ship to-day.  I found Abraham and his family on board.  His little two-masted smack was lying alongside the “Harmony,” ready for a start to his fishing place.  It contained an interesting variety of possessions.  Tent-poles and oars lay along both sides, and his kayak was lashed to the right gunwale.  Tackle, tent, skins, utensils, and boxes were secured in the bottom of the boat, and in a small pen at the bows lay his seven dogs.

TWO ESKIMO GROUPS TAKEN AT NAIN.

[Illustration:  A GROUP OF WIDOWS AT NAIN.]

Mr. Jannasch is the photographer among our Labrador missionaries, and we have to thank him for some excellent pictures of persons and places in that cold land.  Copies of these may be obtained at our Agency (No. 32, Fetter Lane, London, E.C.), and we should be glad to encourage him by a larger sale for his interesting cabinet, stereoscopic and carte de visite photographs.  As he is resident at Nain, most of his scenes or groups are taken at or near that station, but last-winter he took his camera with him on a sledge journey to Hopedale.

[Illustration:  THE CHOIR AT NAIN.]

The two groups which we have had reproduced for our pages are characteristic, but those whose portraits are given might remark that justice has scarcely been done to their faces.  The first is a group of