While Laritz remained at Nain, Jans Haven and James Rhodes took the vessel which brought him there, and made a voyage on the north coast to Nachwach, 59 deg. 30 m.  N.L.  It lasted from the 7th August to the 17th September.  They landed at different places, and the Esquimaux everywhere, who had either before known or heard of Jans Haven, received him with shouts!  He told them what had moved the brethren to settle in the country, and invited them to come to him.  They heard him with astonishment speak of the great love of the Saviour to men, and asked if he was an Angekok, as he spoke of such high things as they never had heard, even from their own prophets?  Others asked, why the Saviour, who made all things, had not before sent some one to tell their fathers these good news, and now they were gone where they could hear nothing?  Havens answered, that “the times of their ignorance God had winked at,” but that he now shewed mercy to them in sending them the gospel, and they ought to improve this the day of their visitation.  At Napartok, having declared to the natives the counsel of God for their salvation, he thus continued:  “I hear that there are quarrels and backbitings among you, and that some even seek the lives of others; all this proceeds from your not knowing the Saviour.”  He then turned to the Angekok, Aweinak, who was a reputed murderer, and said, “Hear these my words, ’Whoso sheddeth man’s blood, by man his blood shall be shed.’  Forgive one another, and live as brethren and sisters in love and fellowship; make no difference between your own countrymen and those of the north and south.”  The Angekok promised to behave better, and begged Haven to repeat his assurance of friendship.  Haven did so, and turning to the by-standers, said, “You hear his words; forgive him and love him, and if he ever again act wickedly, let me know.”  At Arimek, the Esquimaux thanked him for what he had spoken, and concluded by saying, “Though thou art not big, thou hast a great soul and a brave spirit.”

During an abode of two months at Nain, Laritz received every information respecting the state of the mission, and having made the proper arrangements for their further direction, he assembled the brethren in the mission-house at Nain, and read to them a solemn farewell address, and left it with them.  “From the bottom of my heart,” he begins, “I praise the gracious counsel of our dear Lord towards the poor and blind nations of the Esquimaux, and I return back to Europe with a deep impression of it; for though I have as yet only seen the springing of the seed, yet I feel in my heart a believing confidence, that in the proper time and hour which the Lord himself has appointed, a joyful harvest shall appear.  Dear brethren and sisters, as the Lord of his pure grace has placed you in a land, where, since the creation of the world, his name has not been named or praised, it seems to me to be more incumbent on you daily to renew the deep consideration of your call and appointment