cast anchor close to an encampment, containing fourteen families, some from a distant district called Rivektok.  At first they appeared shy, but upon receiving a few trifling presents became quite familiar; and as many of them had never seen a European, walked round them, and inspected them narrowly to see what manner of animals they were, having previously received some account of them from Uttakiyok’s brother, who had joined them.  Proceeding farther up the river, accompanied by most of the men and some women, they arrived at a bay, which by the winding of the stream appears like a lake surrounded on all sides with gently rising grounds, well planted with woods of moderate size, chiefly birch.  Behind the woods are some low hills.  This place they named Unity’s Bay.

Here they found another good situation for a missionary settlement—­a fine slope, extending for about half an English mile, bounded on each extremity by a hill, on both of which they erected high signals.  Juniper, currants, and other berries, were growing in abundance—­and some rivulets of water at no great distance.  This spot they named Pilgerruh, Pilgrim’s rest.  The view of the interior was in general flat, with a few low hills and ponds in some places full of wild geese; the largest trees were not more than eight inches in diameter, and fifteen or twenty feet high.  The Esquimaux informed them that farther up the trees were larger.  The inhabitants were poor, and miserably equipped in comparison of the Esquimaux near the brethren’s settlement; as those who accompanied the expedition, and who, from their intercourse with the Europeans, had obtained many conveniences by barter, and from the teaching of the missionaries had acquired a knowledge of the gospel.  These advantages the latter did not fail to expatiate upon to their heathen countrymen; and once the brethren met with Sybilla, Jonathan’s wife, surrounded by a company of women under the shadow of a skin boat, set on edge, exhorting them with great simplicity and fervour to hear and believe the gospel.  Even Uttakiyok occasionally engaged in advocating the same cause, explained as well as he could the reason of the Brethren’s living in Labrador, and exclaimed, “My friends, let us all be converted to Jesus.”  Having finished their observations on this quarter, the missionaries resolved to return, as, from the account given by their able and faithful conductor, Uttakiyok, whose information they had hitherto found correct, the western coast on the opposite side of the bay was bare and without any proper landing place, and at this season of the year uninhabited, the Esquimaux being generally employed in the interior in hunting the rein-deer; they, therefore, Sept. 1., left the river and shaped their course homeward.  The natives shewed the greatest reluctance to part with them, and called after them, “Come soon again; we shall always be wishing to see you.”  Several of them, and among these their disinterested friend, Uttakiyok, followed them for some miles, repeating