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" was the happy day when I saw an Esquimau arrive 

 in the harbor. I ran to meet him and addressed him in 

 Greenlandic. He was astonished to hear his own lan- 

 guage from the mouth of an European, and answered 

 me in broken French." The next day eighteen returned 

 his visit. On the third day the Eskimos left the harbor 

 altogether, and after a short stay at Quirpont Haven re- 

 turned to Newfoundland. 



The following year Haven, with three other mission- 

 aries, landed, July 17, 1765, in Chateau Bay, lat. 52", on 

 the south shore of Labrador, opposite Belle Isle. " Here 

 the party separated ; Haven and Schlotzer engaging 

 with another vessel, to explore the coast northwards ; 

 they did not, however, accomplish anything material in 

 this expedition, nor did they meet with a single Esqui- 

 mau the whole time. Drachart and John Hill remained 

 in Chateau Bay, and were fortunate enough to have the 

 company of several hundred Esquimaux for upwards of 

 a month, during which period they had daily opportu- 

 nities of intercourse. As soon as Sir Thomas Adams had 

 received intelligence that they had pitched their tents at 

 a place twenty miles distant, he sailed thither to invite 

 them, in the name of the governor, to Pitt's Harbor. On 

 the approach of the ship the savages in the kajaks hailed 

 them with shouts of 'Tout camarade, oui Hu !' and the 

 crew returned the same salutation. Mr. Drachart did 

 not choose to join in the cry, but told Sir Thomas that 

 he could converse with the natives in their own language. 

 When the tumult had subsided he took one of them by 

 the hand and said in Greenlandic, ' We are friends. "^ 

 The savage replied, ' We are also thy friends.' " 



Crantz then describes, from the notes of Haven and 



