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Fifty miles above Indian Harbour, up Hamilton 

 Inlet, is a young Wesleyan minister. He has a small 

 school and chapel on the south side of the inlet. We 

 had the pleasure of taking him in the Princess May 

 to his new sphere of work. His. name is the Rev. G. 

 Hollett, and his sphere of work is Hamilton Inlet, I 

 think as far in as the North West river, that is eighty 

 miles further, or 130 from Indian Harbour. 



From Indian Harbour to Hopedale the settlers 

 number from 260 to 300, and are very poor and 

 very scattered. The distance by sea is 150 miles, 

 and again consists of a series of long bays and 

 off-lying islands. There is no missionary or school- 

 master anywhere along this part of the coast, 

 though once in the winter one of the Moravians 

 travels over the ice as far south as Cape Harrison 

 with his komatik and dogs, often at great peril to his 

 life. Northward of Cape Harrison are only a few 

 scattered European settlers, mixed among not less 

 than 2,000 Eskimos. These are mostly members of 

 the Moravian Church. The Moravian stations are 

 from 50 to 100 miles apart. 



To meet the spiritual needs of all these people, 

 scattered as they are, and of the 25,000 who visit 

 the coast in summer some 10,000 living on their 

 vessels all the year we only heard of one clergyman 

 of the Church of England and one Wesleyan minis- 

 ter, with one Roman Catholic priest, visiting during 

 part of the summer. This year, 1893, we did not 

 hear of any peripatetic Wesleyan minister, and the 



