CHAPTER IX 



MARRIAGE FORT GEORGE 

 " Thy people shall be my people." 



MR. PECK'S sojourn at Ungava Bay lasted 

 until the arrival of the Hudson's Bay Com- 

 pany's steamer. Then he embarked on the vessel 

 which sailed to a port on the Labrador coast. After 

 various changes he reached St. John's, Newfound- 

 land. Thence taking passage in a ship sailing for 

 England he arrived in Liverpool on the I5th of 

 October, 1884, to enjoy a sojourn in the old country. 

 This English sojourn has no place in an account 

 of work among the Eskimos save for one fact which 

 influenced that work considerably. This was 

 Mr. Peck's marriage. He had known the Rev. W. 

 Coleman, the present vicar of Moreton Morrell, in 

 Warwickshire, before he went to Little Whale River, 

 and when on a visit to him after his return home, 

 he found his friend's sister, Miss Coleman, ready 

 to share his life of privation and danger for the sake 

 of Christ. They were married in St. Paul's Church, 

 Greenwich, where Mr. Coleman was curate at that 



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