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quaintance in Mr. Haven, who had formerly slept a 

 night in their tent. Karpik was detained by Governor 

 Palliser, with the intention of committing him to the 

 care of Mr. Haven, to be trained up for usefulness in a 

 future mission to his countrymen. He did not arrive in 

 England till 1769, at which time he was about fifteen 

 years old." He died in England of small-pox. 



We glean a few more items from Crantz regarding the 

 distribution, numbers, and habits of the Labrador Eski- 

 mos. The Moravians, after founding Nain (lat. 56° 25'), 

 determined to found two other stations, one to the north 

 and the other to the south. Okkak (150 miles north of 

 Nain in lat. 57" 33') was thus founded on land purchased 

 from the Eskimos in 1775, Haven with his family estab- 

 lishing himself there the following year. The reason for 

 founding these stations was due to the fact that it " was 

 found insufficient to serve as a gathering place for the 

 Eskimos dispersed along a line of coast not less than six 

 hundred miles in extent, especially as it afforded but 

 scanty resources to the natives during the winter season, 

 when they had fewer inducements to rove from place to 

 place." 



In the summer of 1782 the Moravians began a third 

 settlement to the south, " on the spot which they had 

 formerly marked out and purchased from the Esquimaux. 

 This station received the name of Hopedale." As ob- 

 stacles to the missionary work were the following : " The 

 spirit of traffic had become extremely prevalent amongst 

 the southern Esquimaux ; the hope of exaggerated ad- 

 vantages which they might derive from a voyage to the 

 European factories, wholly abstracted their thoughts from 

 religious inquiries ; and one boat-load followed another 



