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accompany the sledge, for the lame man could not 

 drive, and the blind man could not guide, but be- 

 tween them both they managed to do the work of 

 one sound man. 



After travelling about thirty-five miles, they met 

 a party of Eskimos living near some islands, and 

 Mr. Peck essayed a visit to the " chief residence." 



" But," he writes, " the smell inside was so awful 

 that I was compelled to beat a hasty retreat, and 

 fixing my little canvas tent, was glad to make the 

 best of out-door quarters rather than attempt to 

 pass a night in such an inferno as that which I had 

 begun to enter." 



Tuesday the journey was continued, and again 

 on Wednesday, in spite of the fact that it was snow- 

 ing heavily throughout the greater part of the day. 



"Arrived at Blacklead Island about ten p.m.,'* 

 writes Mr. Peck, " and was most warmly received 

 by the people, and was thankful to meet again my 

 fellow-labourer and loved friend, Mr. Parker, who, 

 I was delighted to find, was well and hearty. Thank 

 God for His upholding and sustaining grace shown 

 so freelv to us both." 



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