Chapter 4

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. 154