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to them. The new messenger left the Thames in 

 the Hudson's Bay Company's ship Prince of Wales, 

 on July n, 1876, with the object of making the 

 Evangelisation of the Eskimos his life's work. 



Speaking of the voyage, Mr. Peck gives some 

 interesting glimpses. The crew was of a decidedly 

 cosmopolitan character, though nearly all could 

 understand the English tongue. 



" Every one in the ship treated me with the 

 greatest kindness, and I was permitted to hold 

 meetings in the forecastle almost every evening. 

 Some of the crew, as a result of these meetings, I 

 believe, experienced spiritual blessings, and the 

 voyage, in spite of the special dangers of naviga- 

 tion encountered that year, was one of spiritual 

 profit and blessing to others beside myself. 



" Before leaving England I was able to obtain 

 from the Moravian Brethrens' office in London a 

 copy of the New Testament which had been trans- 

 lated by the Brethren labouring on the coast of 

 Labrador. This, to me, great treasure I studied 

 when on the trackless deep, and by carefully com- 

 paring it with our English translation I was able 

 especially where there was a repetition of the same 

 words, as in St. John, chap, i finally to hit upon 

 the meanings. 



" The words which I felt I had thus acquired I 

 marked, and though on arriving at my station at 

 Little Whale River I found some differences of a 



