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with our school children in the chapel. For this purpose we 

 had placed two nice Christmas trees and two illuminated trans- 

 parents in the chapel. My dear husband translated some 

 lovely Christmas songs into Eskimo, and I taught the children 

 to sing them. Between the hymns they recited songs and 

 texts from the Bible. Sometimes one by one and then again 

 altogether. The children made it very nicely. The choir, 

 which sang some nice pieces, helped to make the whole to 

 sound better. Finally every child got a large biscuit and a 

 cup of tea, which seemed to make greater impression than the 

 whole celebration. The congregation were also invited and 

 they were very much interested in it. 



In the midst of February I accompanied my dear husband 

 on his journey around to the settlers belonging to our congre- 

 gation, which live scattered far away from here towards the 

 South. 



We left Hopedale one morning, having 30 degrees Cen. of 

 cold, of course by "kamatik" (dog sledge). I was well wrap- 

 ped up so that I did not freeze so very much, but the worst is 

 always on such a trip that we cannot eat anything. Before we 

 started I made some meat balls for the purpose to use them 

 during the nine hours driving, but it was impossible to make 

 use of them because they were like stones without fearing to 

 loosen our teeth. Happily I had some biscuits and to become 

 more strengthened I used a little chocolate. We were nearly 

 three weeks away from home and in that time we were nearly 

 every day on the kamatik. Never less than five hours at a 

 time, but generally from seven to nine hours, and twice from 

 eleven to twelve hours. It was indeed sometimes very ex- 

 hausting especially one time when we came to very poor peo- 

 ple where we had for two days nothing to eat and the next 

 day we had to travel for about eleven hours having nothing 

 but dry biscuits. I did not feel so very well that time. 



Many of these settlers have only the opportunity once a 

 year to hear the gospel of God preached to them, that is when 

 the missionary is visiting them. Many are too far away from 



