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place, and depending upon the settlers for liis food and 

 lodging. Their lordships were deeply gratified at this 

 meeting, and the mission church at Forteau, on the wild 

 coast of Labrador, witnessed the services of our Church 

 administered by two of its bishops and three clergymen. 

 It is not probable that such an event will occur again for 

 years to come. 



I had the pleasure of meeting with the Bishop of 

 Quebec at Mingan, and travelhng in the same steamer as 

 far as Quebec. From his lordship and his chaplain, tlie 

 Eev. A. Mountain, I learned that a census had been taken 

 of all the residents belonging to the Church of England 

 on the Canadian north shore of the Gulf. The total 

 number of such residents west of Blanc Sablon amounted 

 to 224. (See Appendix No. VII. for Statistics.) 



The Moeavian Missions. 



The stations now occupied by these exemplary mission- 

 aries are situated between Hamilton Inlet and Cape 

 Chudleigh, the most northern point of Ungava Bay. 

 Their names and positions are as foUows : — Nain (lat. 56° 

 30'), Ok-kak.(lat. 57° 31'), Hebron (lat. 58°), and Hopedale. 

 At each station there is a church, store, dwelling-house 

 for the missionaries, and workshops for the native trades- 

 men. The object of the Brethren is to collect the 

 Esquimaux in villages about them, and besides mstructing 

 them in the truths of Christianity, they seek to teach those 

 simple mechanical arts which may contribute to their 

 comfort and wean them from the wandering life to which 

 they are so prone. The natives are lodgers in liouses 

 built after the model of their igloes, being the best 

 adapted to the climate and circumstances of a country 



