50 Our North Land. 



looking man — he impressed me as one who would go ten times as far 

 to procure a black fox skin as he would to convert a dirty, greasy 

 husky. At the same time I think the method of these combination 

 stations — a combination of religion and business — is a good one, 

 well conducted by the Germans. 



The Eskimos stand in the same relation to the Moravians that 

 the natives do elsewhere to the Hudson's Bay Company, that of 

 well-used slaves. They are wholly subject to the dictates of the 

 whites, but the obedience is one greatly founded on respect. 



There are but three seasons at Nain in the year : summer, fall 

 and winter. Summer is warm and pleasant, including a part of 

 April, all of May and June, and perhaps a little of July. Fall is 

 windy and stormy and dirty and chilly, and runs on from the 

 middle of July to the end of September, or it may be a few days 

 into October. " Winter is cold, very cold, terribly cold ; long, very 

 long, terribly long ; stormy, very stormy, terribly stormy." I give 

 this description in the language of Brother Jannasch, and have no 

 doubt of its correctness. 



