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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." 



