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people, Doctor Richardson and myself paid 

 her a visit. We found the passengers, 

 who were going out as Missionaries, ex- 

 tremely disposed to communicate ; but as 

 they only spoke the German and Esqui- 

 maux languages, of which we were igno- 

 rant, our conversation was necessarily much 

 confined : by the aid, however, of an Es- 

 quimaux and German Dicfjfonary, some few 

 words were collected, which we considered 

 might be useful. There were on board a 

 very interesting girl and a young mall, who 

 were natives of Disco, in Old Greenland ; 

 both of them had fair complexions, rather 

 handsome features, and a lively manner ; 

 tke former was going to be married to a 

 resident Missionary, and the latter to offi- 

 ciate in that character. The commander 

 of the vessel gave me a translation of the 

 Gospel of St. John in the Esquimaux lan- 

 guage, printed by the Moravian Society in 

 London. 



June 16.— The wind being unfavourable 

 for sailing I went on shore with Dr. Ri- 

 chardson, and took several lunar observa- 



