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to them. The new messenger left the Thames in 

 the Hudson s Bay Company s ship Prince of Wales, 

 on July IT, 1876, with the object of making the 

 Evangelisation of the Eskimos his life s work. 



Speaking of the voyage, Mr. Peck gives some 

 interesting glimpses. The crew was of a decidedly 

 cosmopolitan character, though nearly all could 

 understand the English tongue. 



&quot; Every one in the ship treated me with the 

 greatest kindness, and I was permitted to hold 

 meetings in the forecastle almost every evening. 

 Some of the crew, as a result of these meetings. I 

 believe, experienced spiritual blessings, and the 

 voyage, in spite of the special dangers of naviga 

 tion encountered that year, was one of spiritual 

 profit and blessing to others beside myself. 



&quot; Before leaving England I was able to obtain 

 from the Moravian Brethrens office in London a 

 copy of the New Testament which had been trans 

 lated by the Brethren labouring on the coast of 

 Labrador. This, to me, great treasure I studied 

 when on the trackless deep, and by carefully com 

 paring it with our English translation I was able 

 especially where there was a repetition of the same 

 words, as in St. John, chap, i finally to hit upon 

 the meanings. 



&quot; The words which I felt I had thus acquired I 

 marked, and though on arriving at my station at 

 Little Whale River I found some differences of a 



