cabin to partake of some refreshments, Jans Haven asked her if she would receive the brethren as her own people.  “You will see,” she replied, “how well we will behave, if you will only come.  We will love you as our countrymen, and trade with you justly, and treat you kindly.”  On account of the tempestuous weather, the whole party, amounting to fourteen, were detained during the whole night on board the vessel.  Early next morning they left them, followed by Messrs Haven and Drachart, who, going from tent to tent, preached the gospel to them.  Mikak acted in the most friendly manner—­assuring her kindred of the brethren’s affection for them, and telling them of all the kindness she had experienced in England, where she had lived in a great house, and been most liberally treated.  The missionaries being about to take leave, Segulliak came up to Drachart, and renewed his expressions of attachment; the latter replied, “I do not forget that five years ago you assured me of your love; and only a few days since you bound this thong on my arm as a token of your affection, and by this you have declared that you are willing to hear the word of the sufferings and death of Jesus.”  When the others heard this, they all cried out, “We also are willing to hear.”  The missionary then mentioned some particulars of the history of the life and sufferings of the Saviour, and asked if they would wish, as the Greenlanders did, to hear something of Jesus everyday?  “Yes! yes!” they all replied.  “Then,” said Drachart, “if that be the case, we will look out for a piece of land in Esquimaux Bay, where we may next year build a house.”

Although these good men had received the extensive grant we have mentioned from His Majesty of England of the Esquimaux country, they did not consider that that gave them any right to take possession without the consent of the inhabitants, or without giving them an equivalent, notwithstanding the settlement was intended solely for their advantage, and was to communicate to them what was of infinitely more value than millions of acres in the finest country of the world, instead of a patch of barren ground on the bleak and inhospitable coast of Labrador.  When they mentioned that they meant to “buy” the land, the whole crowd, who perfectly understood the term, cried out, “Good! good! pay us, and take as much land as you please!” Drachart said, “It is not enough that you be paid for your high rocky mountain; you may perhaps say in your hearts, when these people come here, we will kill them, and take their boats and all their valuable articles.”  “No! no!” they exclaimed, “we will never kill any more, or steal any more; we are brethren!” “That gladdens my heart,” said Drachart; “but how shall we buy the land?  You have no great chief, and every one of you will be lord of his land.  We will do this:  we will give each of you what will be more useful to you in your fishing than the land you may give us.”  “Pay us,” they repeated, “pay us, and take as much land