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broad bay or sound, we nearly overhauled the Moravian 

 supply ship " Harmony," just out from London. She 

 was a bark of 300 American tons, very neatly kept, thor- 

 oughly well-appointed, and well-ofificered and manned, 

 her chief officer, Captain Linklater, a Scotchman. As 

 she approached the harbor and before we discovered the 

 mission building ashore, she fired a salute from two nine- 

 pounders, at the same time sending her flag up to half- 

 mast : both announcing her arrival and signalling disas- 

 ter — the death in London of Rev. Mr. Latrobe, Secre- 

 tary of the Society of the United Brethren. A salute 

 from a small gun near a flagstaff on the rocks not far 

 from the mission, and an irregular volley from the fowl- 

 ing-pieces of the Eskimos answered ; then a dory and a 

 kayak put off from shore, followed by a heavy, clumsy 

 boat with a square block tiller, which bore the three mis- 

 sionaries, clad in seal-skin frocks with capotes, who 

 greeted the others aboard with a kiss on each cheek. 

 The boat's flag was also at half-mast, as the oldest mis- 

 sionary, Superintendent Kruth, had died at Hopedale 

 but a few days previous. The " Harmony" had brought 

 over besides a missionary who had been absent for two 

 years, the agent or supercargo, Herr Lintner, who had 

 been educated as a civil engineer, and was the son of the 

 owner of the vessel ; he visits the three mission stations^ 

 and reports to the Society at home as to their condition 

 and progress.* 



* This was the only vessel which visited Hopedale while we were there. 

 Since that date this part of the coast has been visited by fishermen from New- 

 foundland and Nova Scotia, attracted northward by the greater abundance of 

 codfish. Dewitz states that up to the year 1879 nearly 2,200 vessels had visited 

 Hopedale, from 500 to 600 annually reaching the port, while in the year 1879 

 800 vessels touched at Hopedale, and on one morning 72 vessels lay in Hope- 

 dale Bay. ' 



