CHAPTER IV 



HUDSON'S BAY 

 " I was in prison and ye came unto Me." 



ABOUT half a century has elapsed sino 

 a Church Missionary Society's mission 

 ary first had the opportunity of presenting thi 

 Gospel of Christ to the Eskimos. On April 29 

 1853, a party of them visited Fort George, on th 

 eastern side of Hudson's Bay, where the Rev. E. A 

 Watkins had lately arrived. That post, however] 

 remote and solitary as it was, was too far south t' 

 be much frequented by them ; and subsequent! 1 

 Mr. (afterwards Bishop) Horden more than one 

 travelled northwards to Little Whale River, th 

 furthest point to which the trading agents of th 

 Hudson's Bay Company have advanced, and wa 

 privileged to admit three or four into the Churd 

 Three native teachers in succession were sent b 

 him to work among them ; but all three died, an 

 for several years nothing could be done. 



Here, then, we must return to Mr. Peck, whom w 

 left in the first chapter responding to the cal 

 " Who will go for us ? " The Eskimos had bee 

 waiting long, but at last a missionary was to be ser 



