In the morning we landed, and had the usual Sunday’s service with our people on shore; after which Brother Kohlmeister visited the Esquimaux in their tents, and had some religious conversation with them, to which they seemed to pay attention.  Afterwards Kuttaktok, John, Nukkapiak, and Kajulik, with their wives, came to see us on board.  They are the winter inhabitants of this bay.  John was baptized in infancy at Okkak, but afterwards left the settlement, and not only associates with the heathen Esquimaux, but has even been guilty of murder.  All of them, however, come occasionally to Okkak.  They had two tents about four miles from our landing place.

22d.  The contrary wind forbidding our departure, Brother Kohlmeister, accompanied by Jonathan, Jonas, and Thukkekina, walked across the country to the N.W. bay, to return their visit.  When they saw them coming at a distance, they fired their pieces, to direct them to the tents, and came joyfully to meet the Missionary and his party.  Nothing could exceed the cordiality with which they received them.  A kettle was immediately put on the fire to cook salmon-trout, and all were invited to partake, which was the more readily accepted, as the length of the walk had created an appetite, the keenness of which overcame all squeamishness.  To do these good people justice, their kettle was rather cleaner than usual, the dogs having licked it well, and the fish were fresh and well dressed.  To honour the Missionary, a box was placed for him to sit upon, and the fish were served up to each upon a flat stone instead of a plate.  After dinner, Brother Kohlmeister, in acknowledgment for their civility, gave to each of the women two needles, and a small portion of tobacco to each man, with which they were highly delighted.

All of them being seated, a very lively and unreserved conversation took place concerning the only way of salvation, through Jesus Christ, and the necessity of conversion.  With John and his mother Mary, Brother Kohlmeister spoke very seriously, and represented to them the danger of their state, as apostates from the faith; but they seem blinded by Satan, and determined to persist in their heathenish life.  The Esquimaux now offered to convey the party across the bay in their skin-boat, which was accepted.  Almost all of them accompanied the boat, and met with a very friendly reception from our boat’s company.  In the evening, after some hymns had been sung by our people, Jonas addressed them and the heathen Esquimaux in a short, nervous discourse, on the blessedness of being reconciled unto God.

Kummaktorvik bay runs N.E. and S.W. and is defended by some islands from the sea.  It is about four or five miles long, and surrounded by high mountains, with some pleasant plains at their foot, covered with verdure.  It’s distance from Nachvak is about twelve miles.  This chain of mountains, as will be hereafter mentioned, may be seen from Kangertlualuksoak, in Ungava Bay, which is a collateral proof, that the neck of land, terminated to the N. by Cape Chudleigh, is of no great width.  Both the Nain and Okkak Esquimaux frequently penetrate far enough inland to find the rivers taking a westerly direction, consequently towards the Ungava country.  They even now and then have reached the woods skirting the estuaries of George and South rivers.