70 BOWDOIN BOYS IN LABRADOR 



The children were crying and would not obey their parents* 

 and the parents are so very weak in this way. 



In the evening I gave once more what I possibly could spare, 

 and for the next morning too. But we really did hunger. 



The Lord heard our prayers that we were able to go on the 

 next morning to the next place, but because of the deep snow 

 we could only move on very slowly. First after 1 1 hour's 

 travelling we came in the evening to our next station. We did 

 hunger more in these three days than we have done in our 

 whole lives. The next place was a nice clean house, where we 

 restored ourselves again. 



In one place we visited an Eskimo. When we entered the 

 room, what did we see? A seal living in the midst of their 

 room. The people had heard of our coming and thus put the 

 monster in the room to thaw it up to feed our dogs with. The 

 animal was soon taken away. The house was clean, but small. 

 In this place we had to sleep on the floor, and we used our 

 blankets to make a couch as well as we could. A sailcloth 

 was used as a curtain, so that we had something like a separa- 

 ted place for us. Our two drivers were also in the same room, 

 and they cared for music during the night, for they snored 

 like a saw mill, and when they woke up they smoked their 

 pipes and gave the air in the room such an odor, which I shall 

 not try to describe. Nevertheless, for all that, we were happy 

 together, and I did not repent one minute to have accompanied 

 my dear good husband, in order to be a faithful partner to 

 him. We remembered also it was not a pleasant, but a mis- 

 sion trip we made,where we may expect many things like that. 

 What is that little we can do for our Lord and Saviour? It is 

 like a drop of water in the bottomless sea of his love. If our 

 journey has but been a blessing to some, and if here and there 

 one corn of gospel's seed may grow up we are more than paid 

 for. 



We had four nice places where the good people did all they 

 could to make it comfortable for us. Everywhere they were 

 very thankful for my coming, and expressed their gratitude in 



