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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 
