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ten. Thus the Moravians have been again and again 

 saddled with debts sorely crippling their funds, for they 

 assume a responsibility no ordinary master of labour does. 

 They look after the poor, feed the infirm and helpless, tend 

 the sick, educate the children, and, as well, minister to their 

 spiritual needs, which involves up-keep of chapels, and all 

 the attendant duties and expenses. They have recently 

 altered their methods of trade. It is quite possible they 

 might profitably be still further modernized, but no man 

 need fear inquiring into this noble Mission who really is 

 anxious for the extension of Christ's Kingdom. 



The magnificent salary of the individual worker, includ- 

 ing the Bishop, is 23 per annum, with dinner and tea found 

 at a communal board, the wives taking it in turn each week 

 to cook and superintend meals. The children at seven years 

 of age, the most interesting period of child life, have to 

 leave the parents, probably forever, to be educated at the 

 Society's schools in England or Germany. It is scarcely 

 necessary to say that the missionaries have no personal in- 

 terest in the trade, and that their small income only clothes 

 and provides absolute necessities for the families. The 

 present trade manager of the whole Mission, for many years 

 past my most beloved friend, has made many long journeys 

 with me all along the coast. He is an excellent photog- 

 rapher, sending the pictures home to help the deputation 

 workers to raise the necessary funds, and he is but the type 

 of all their men with whom I have been acquainted these 

 twenty years past. Soon after my arrival at this station, 

 I asked him if they kept photographic material in the store. 

 After seeing the Eskimo brass band perform, it seemed 

 natural they should perform also the simpler functions of a 



