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for adults in our little church. The place was 

 crammed to suffocation, and the malodours arising 

 from the greasy clothing, and the filthy persons of 

 such a congregation, baffles all description. How- 

 ever, we got along very nicely. Mr. Parker is a 

 splendid manipulator of the lantern, and I gave a 

 few words explanatory of the passing slides, which 

 depicted scenes in our Lord's life on earth ; and, as 

 ever when the magic lantern is shown, the people 

 went away full of a deep delight." 



" Friday, 2jth. Children's day. Tried to make 

 the little ones happy. Gave them a feast at 3 

 p.m. This consisted of plum pudding, cake, tea 

 and coffee. Oh ! how those little dears did eat ! 

 Oh ! what capacious stomachs these Eskimos have ! 

 But, at last they had to ' cease firing,' and then I 

 advised them to carry off the fragments that re- 

 mained for their mothers and fathers ; a hint, by 

 the way, which they were not slow to take advan- 

 tage of. 



" At 7 p.m. came the great event of the 

 season distribution of the prizes and a display of a 

 Christmas tree. This latter, made by Mr. Parker, 

 was a great success. With the hoops of a flour 

 barrel, tastefully decorated with coloured paper, 

 etc., and arranged ingeniously on a pole, which was 

 lashed top and bottom, he contrived a very pretty 

 affair. The gifts were in nice little bags (the bags 

 also the work of Mr. Parker's ingenious fingers) and 



