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readily suppose that the words of Christ after His 

 Resurrection, " As my Father hath sent Me, even 

 so send I you," must have been comforting to them. 

 Whether or not they recognized the likeness between 

 Him,Who left His home on high for a world of dark- 

 ness, and themselves, it is possible for the onlooker 

 or the reader to do so. 



In Mr. Peck's diary we find entries concerning 

 the weather from time to time, which certainly 

 would not encourage the pleasure-seeker to shape 

 his course for Cumberland Sound. In the begin- 

 ning of November we read of six degrees below zero, 

 then of twenty. Again, by November 23, twenty- 

 eight degrees below zero are registered, and then is 

 the significant note : "I am told that over fifty 

 degrees below zero is not uncommon here." A few 

 days later the sea was frozen over near " our island 

 home, and we can now walk on the ice. This is a 

 great treat, as the walking on our rocky island is 

 really most trying." 



The darkness and the cold ran a race together. 

 It is a constant thing to read of lamps being required 

 nearly the whole day. In the latitude of Blacklead 

 Island the sun is not wholly obscured for the whole 

 of any one day in the winter ; or perhaps it would 

 be more correct to say that on the shortest day he 

 does just rise above the horizon, for he may be 

 obscured by bad weather. On December 19 : " The 

 days are very short now ; the sun was first seen at 



