was soon erected.  All the natives who were present willingly assisted in laying the foundation with stones, and filling it up with sand—­part of the boards were nailed on the same day.  The house stands on an eminence, in the neighbourhood of a small lake, which the Esquimaux assured us had water in it during the greater part of the summer, and probably, by a little labour, it may be formed into a good reservoir.  We continued our building, without intermission, till the 21st, when we finished.  On the 22nd we floored the house, prepared the bed-rooms, fixed a table and bench between two windows, and set up a little oven.  In the evening, brother Kmoch held a meeting to take leave, and affectionately exhorted our Esquimaux to approve themselves the children of God under every circumstance, to give themselves up at all times to be led by the Spirit of the Lord, and faithfully to follow his admonitions.  On the 25th inst. at 3 o’clock, A.M., we set out on our return, but the newly fallen snow mixing with the water on the ice, so obstructed our path, that we were nine hours longer on the way than we were before, but we reached Okkak on the 26th, at three in the morning, full of gratitude to the Saviour, whose presence had so comforted us on this visit, and filled us with the joyful conviction, that he also had left a blessed impression on the Esquimaux.

Preparations were now commenced at the different stations for forwarding the erection of the new settlement, and early in the year 1829, rafters, boards, and shingles, were transported to Kangertluksoak from Okkak by sledges, which performed no less than one hundred and five journies, and seldom spent more than a day upon the road, the tract having been extraordinarily fine, beyond what the oldest inhabitant remembered to have seen, and which the brethren considered as the mark of a kind providence smiling on their new undertaking.  When the frame work of the mission-house was finished, on the 13th of April brother Mentzel and Beck, with six young Esquimaux, set out for the spot.  On the 8th of July the frame was set up, and on the 21st it was covered with weather boarding on three sides.

The Society in London in the meantime had not been idle; they had, in addition to the ordinary vessel, hired a consort, the Oliver, which they sent out with materials, to enable the missionaries to go on with their new settlement, named Hebron, and which opportunely arrived, just when the house was made ready to receive, and place the stores under cover.  Another missionary, Ferdinand, arrived with the Harmony to assist brother Beck.  Immediately they commenced unloading the Oliver, in which they were stoutly assisted by about thirty Esquimaux, with their wives and children.  In less than a week, the whole was landed, and after consulting with the brethren at Okkak, the resident missionaries proceeded with their labour:  notwithstanding several interruptions, first by the loss of their