CHAPTER IV. 

 The Moravian Missions. 



FORDS HARBOUR — THE LONE FISHERWOMAN — RELIGION AND BUSI- 

 NESS — THE CHRISTIANIZED ESKIMO — A CURIOUS BURIAL-GROUND 

 — THE MORAVIAN CHURCH — THE VILLAGE OF NAIN. 



Where the sermon in Eskimo language is made 

 For the good of his soul and the sake of his trade. 



H HE Expedition made its way from the outer Labrador coast, 

 in, through more than a hundred islands of solid, barren 

 rocks, to the Moravian capital of Nain. On the voyage in 

 we cast anchor, and spent the night of July 29th, in Ford's 

 Harbour, at the east end of Paul's Island; but" if you were there 

 you could not see any difference between Paul's Island and any of 

 the other many mounds of naked rocks which crop out of the water 

 here and there in any direction. It was about four o'clock in the 

 afternoon when the anchor was let go. It was, in some respects, a 

 delightful place. The boats were lowered and a large party went 

 on shore. Passing round the bluffs — I mean one set of bluffs or 

 cliffs — there are bluffs and cliffs very nearly everywhere on the 

 Labrador — we visited the house and home of the Fords, after whom 

 the harbour is called. Old Father Ford is dead and gone, but his 

 good widow, at a ripe old age, is still living. We called her the 

 " lone fisherwoman," notwithstanding she has living with her a 

 married son, two marriageable daughters, and one or two hired 

 fishermen. The Fords are Eskimo quarter-breeds, very industrious 

 and very hospitable. 



Lieutenant Gordon's business with Mr. Ford was -to secure his 

 services to pilot us next morning into Nain, which he did, agreeing 



