228 Inasmuch 



them said: &quot;Now that we have heard of a kirk 

 being eaten by dogs, it is not hard to believe that 

 a whale could have swallowed Jonah.&quot; The only 

 fatal meal for an Eskimo dog, of which the writer 

 can find any record, occurred on the Labrador 

 Coast, where one swallowed an old dish cloth 

 in haste, and repented at leisure. 



Mr. Parker The daily routine of toil, privation and lone 



liness, was broken by one very sad event. With a 

 party of seven men; whalers and others, Mr. 

 Parker set off upon an excursion. A day or two 

 later, an Eskimo found a water-logged boat, with 

 the body of a Captain Clisby, one of the party, 

 cast upon the shore; of the others, nothing was 

 ever heard. In this tragic manner ended the 

 brief but fruitful service of one of the two pioneers 

 into the far north of the eastern habitat of the 

 Eskimo. 



First Results The work was slow and difficult in the extreme. 



Dec. 1900 six y ears after the Mission was founded, the 

 Missionary could write &quot;Some of the men came 

 to both morning and evening services. The 

 evening service was very hearty and the people 

 listened with evident attention.&quot; One month 

 later, after an address concerning baptism &quot;No 

 less than two men and twenty-four women came 

 .... wishing to be enrolled,&quot; and on May 4th, 

 the first convert, a girl on her death-bed, was 

 admitted into the visible Church of Christ. 



Lake Harbour From Blacklead Island a station was opened at 

 Lake Harbour, on the north side of Hudson 



