in are now in the depths of the sea, my only refuge is the Saviour; all my thoughts rest on him.”  The widow Esther, however, deserves particular notice; she was bred at Kilanok north from Okkak, and when a child came on a visit to Nain in 1773, where she and her countrymen heard for the first time the missionaries speak of the Creator and Redeemer of men; this made a great impression upon her, and though a child, and surrounded only by the heathen, it constantly occurred to her mind, “It is he who made all things and knows all things; he, therefore, knows me and can help me.”  Often she told the missionaries, that when she was at Kilanok, she would go out to a mountain and weep and pray to Jesus, particularly when any thing painful happened to her.  After her father’s death a man took her for his third wife, which placed her in the most painful circumstances, as he was a rude wicked wretch, a sorcerer, and a murderer.  In the year 1787 he died, and she was left with two children completely destitute, for every one hated them on his account.  Her children were so dreadfully beaten that they both died in consequence; but though they were thus cruelly treated in her presence she durst not interfere, as the savages in ridicule pretended it was the Torngak that bid them, and threatened her also with death.  At last Rebecca, one of the baptized, had compassion on her in this disconsolate situation, and brought her to Okkak.  Here the missionaries soon perceived such an earnest desire after salvation as they say they had never before seen in any Esquimaux, though she at first spoke but little.  In 1789, she was baptized, and soon after was a partaker of the holy supper.  She lived in constant communion with her Saviour, for she had learned to know him as her comforter, her counsellor and help, and often said, “He is indeed my Father; wherever I go, and wherever I am, he is with me, and I can tell him every thing.”  Esther was the first converted person among the Esquimaux who continued faithful unto the end, without allowing herself in any thing sinful, and though often asked in marriage by unbelievers, so far was she from listening to such proposals, that her reply was, “I would not disturb my present enjoyment even to marry a believer.”  For had she married, she must have gone in summer with the other Esquimaux to the distant places where they procured their furs and skins, while in her present state she could always remain at the settlement, and enjoy the privileges of a Christian church.  She learned to read and write, so that she wrote letters with her own hand to the sisters at Nain.  In June 1792, when she was taken ill, she sweetly repeated, “Whether I live I am the Saviour’s, whether I die I am the Saviour’s—­living or dying I am the Saviour’s!  Yes! he hath bought me with his blood, and he will take me to himself!” She died after three days illness, aged thirty years.