PREFACE TO THE THIRD EDITION 



IT is a cause of satisfaction that a new edition 

 of this book is demanded at the present 

 moment. For besides being evidence of the in- 

 terest taken in the self-denying labours of Mr. Peck 

 and his co-workers in time past, it will, I trust, be 

 the means of calling attention to the new enterprise 

 that is contemplated for the evangelization of the 

 Eskimos. Much has happened since the first and 

 second editions were published. The narrative 

 could not then be brought beyond the autumn 

 of 1902, for no information of a later date was 

 available. 



Now, however, we are in possession of facts to 

 which attention must be called. It is, therefore, 

 not so much in the light of a Preface in the ordinary 

 sense of the word that the reader is asked to regard 

 the following few pages as a sort of summary of 

 events which is intended to link the former narra- 

 tive with new plans, and, possibly, future develop- 

 ments of work among the Eskimos. 



In the summer of 1903 Mr. Peck again returned 

 to Blacklead Island, and a spell of two years' more 

 work in that station was the result. We cannot 



