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I have another with me now who is able to read and 

 understand a goodly portion of St. Luke's Gospel. 

 I shall (D.V.) go on teaching him, and trust that 

 God will fit him for His own work." 



It should be borne in mind that at the same 

 time all this work was being done Mr. Peck was 

 also not forgetting the Indian Church, and as re 

 gards literary work he says, " I have been busy en 

 larging our Eskimo grammar. This work will, I 

 trust, prove useful to others who may come in 

 contact with the Eskimos." 



Shall we now accompany our missionary in one 

 of those " journeyings often " which became more 

 frequent for the reasons given above ? We shall 

 find ourselves the very first night in rather cold 

 quarters no soft feather beds, though it is true 

 there is a fire in the bed-room. It is on March 13, 

 1891, that we have to make our start. We are 

 off by 7 a.m. It is dreadful at the very start. It 

 has been snowing heavily during the night and the 

 drifts are so deep that it is with the greatest diffi 

 culty we can get our sledge along. However, we 

 resolve to push on with stout hearts for we are 

 buoyed up by the hope of reaching a tent in which 

 we took refuge a year ago. Mile after mile goes by 

 slowly enough. It is all we can do to keep up our 

 spirits. 



" At last ! there it is ! " we exclaim as a dark ob 

 ject comes into view. " No, I am afraid there is 





