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the store, some bullets were fired right through the 

 wooden walls. Fortunately no one was hurt. But 

 bad feelings had been roused, and at last it was 

 found necessary to close these stores altogether, 

 with the result that the Eskimo have been obliged 

 to leave, and stay where they could buy provisions 

 at hand; and now the Eskimo are all gone, and 

 the whole station is closed for good. But this is 

 only what civilization has done for aboriginal races 

 all the world over. 



Thank God that in this case the Gospel both pre- 

 ceded and accompanied commerce. To this alone 

 I attribute the fact that after over 130 years any 

 of the Eskimo do now remain. The Gospel has 

 been received. Many have passed from darkness 

 to light, and so are in a position to correspond to 

 or resist the new environment of white men's cus- 

 toms and white men's whisky. True the Eskimo in 

 Labrador are being slowly driven to a last stand. 

 Thank God that stand is at Ramah, Hebron, Okkak, 

 Hopedale and Nain, around the devoted Christian 

 missionaries of the Moravian brethren, who for 

 Christ's sake spend their lives among the hard- 

 ships of this bleak and barren coast ; and while 

 Beothicks and Red Indians have fallen victims to 

 the God of mammon, remnants of this gentle and 

 harmless race still persist. Take away these Mora- 

 vians from Labrador, and the days of the Eskimo 

 would soon be numbered. 



In the eleventh century Thorfinn Karlsefne de- 



