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are so lonely now," said the good man's wife to me. 

 Even to get a wife they must write home, and one is 

 chosen by lot for them. After our visit, they wrote 

 as follows : 



HOPEDALE, LABRADOR, 



September Jt/i. 

 To the Council of the Mission to Deep Sea Fishermen. 



GENTLEMEN, On behalf of the Moravian Mission 

 here I would ask you to accept our warmest thanks 

 for sending your ship, the Albert, to visit us and our 

 people, cut off as we are for so many months in the 

 year from the rest of the world. We feel by its 

 visit that we are within your thoughts. For the 

 comfort we have found in having our hands spiritu- 

 ally strengthened by the presence of other Christian 

 men ; for what benefit we have received from medical 

 attendance in our Mission house and in our congre- 

 gation ; for the kind gift of books for our library, 

 and for the blessing we had in joining these meet- 

 ings kept, and for the pleasure we have had in meet- 

 ing all those we met from the Albert, we beg you to 

 accept our most hearty thanks. May our Lord and 

 Saviour bless your work everywhere, as He has done 

 it here among the fishermen and at our station. 



With kind and brotherly love, we remain your 

 brethren in Christ, 



P. M. HANSEN, 



Moravian Missionary. 



In Hopedale Harbour we stayed many days, for 



