voyage in search of a situation.—Liebisch appointed
Superintendant.—An Angekok baptized—his address to the
natives.—Jans Haven commences a new station at Okkak—received
joyfully by the natives—six Esquimaux baptized—proceedings at
Nain.—Missionary accompanies the Esquimaux to a
rein-deer-hunt.—Third settlement—Hopedale founded.—Remarkable
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Chapter iv.
Esquimaux visit the English settlements—pernicious
consequences—dreadful accident—famine—unexpected
supply
of food and skins.—Emigration
from Okkak—missionaries’ care
of the wanderers, who return disappointed.—Terrible
tales
from the south.—Inquirers separated
from the heathen.—Popish
priest attempts to seduce the converts.—Brother
Rose inspects
Hopedale.—Karpik the sorcerer.—Peter’s
fall.—Visits to
the south renewed.—Parting
address of the brethren.—Epidemic.—
Death of Daniel—of Esther.—Conversion
and peaceful end of
Tuglavina.—Last days of Mikak.—Indians
come to Hopedale.—
Rose’s remarks on the internal state
of the missions.—Instances
of the power of grace among the Esquimaux—striking
observation
of one of the baptized.—Jonathan’s
letter to the Greenlanders.—
Affecting confession of Solomon.—Conduct
of a young woman
sought in marriage by a heathen.—State
of the settlements at the
close of the century.—Prospects
begin to brighten.—Remarkable
phenomenon.—Avocations of the
missionaries—their trials—
preservation of their vessels—of
their settlements—their
brotherly love.
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Chapter V.
Variable appearances of the mission at Nain
and Okkak—more
favourable at Hopedale.—Death
of Benjamin.—Spirit of love
among the converted.—Happy
communion and close of the
year.—Providential escape of
the Resolution.—New epoch in
Labrador.—A remarkable awakening
commences at Hopedale—
meetings—schools.—Letter
from a converted Esquimaux to his
teacher.—Industry of the awakened.—Declension
of religion
at Nain and Okkak.—State of
the children at Hopedale.—
Progress of the adults in knowledge, love,
and zeal—instances.—
Striking conversion of two young Esquimaux,
its effects upon
their countrymen.—Awakening
spreads to Nain and to Okkak.—Zeal
of the converts towards the heathen rouses
backsliders.—
Behaviour of the awakened in sickness,
and the prospect of
death.—Remarkable accessions
from the heathen.—The son of a
sorcerer.
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