CHAPTER IV. Esquimaux visit the English settlements--pernicious consequences--dreadful accident--famine--unexpected supply of food and skins.--Emigration from Okkak--missionaries' care of the wanderers, who return disappointed.--Terrible tales from the south.--Inquirers separated from the heathen.--Popish priest attempts to seduce the converts.--Brother Rose inspects Hopedale.--Karpik the sorcerer.--Peter's fall.--Visits to the south renewed.--Parting address of the brethren.--Epidemic.-- Death of Daniel--of Esther.--Conversion and peaceful end of Tuglavina.--Last days of Mikak.--Indians come to Hopedale.-- Rose's remarks on the internal state of the missions.--Instances of the power of grace among the Esquimaux--striking observation of one of the baptized.--Jonathan's letter to the Greenlanders.-- Affecting confession of Solomon.--Conduct of a young woman sought in marriage by a heathen.--State of the settlements at the close of the century.--Prospects begin to brighten.--Remarkable phenomenon.--Avocations of the missionaries--their trials-- preservation of their vessels--of their settlements--their brotherly love. 154 CHAPTER V. Variable appearances of the mission at Nain and Okkak--more favourable at Hopedale.--Death of Benjamin.--Spirit of love among the converted.--Happy communion and close of the year.--Providential escape of the Resolution.--New epoch in Labrador.--A remarkable awakening commences at Hopedale-- meetings--schools.--Letter from a converted Esquimaux to his teacher.--Industry of the awakened.--Declension of religion at Nain and Okkak.--State of the children at Hopedale.-- Progress of the adults in knowledge, love, and zeal--instances.-- Striking conversion of two young Esquimaux, its effects upon their countrymen.--Awakening spreads to Nain and to Okkak.--Zeal of the converts towards the heathen rouses backsliders.-- Behaviour of the awakened in sickness, and the prospect of death.--Remarkable accessions from the heathen.--The son of a sorcerer. 201 CHAPTER VI. Mutual affection of the Christian Esquimaux and Greenlanders--their correspondence--letter from Timothy, a baptized Greenlander.--Delight of the Esquimaux in religious exercises.--Order of the congregations--distressing events, apostasy of Kapik--awful end of Jacob--peaceful end of believers--Judith, Joanna.--Revival among the communicants.--A feast by a Christian brother to the Esquimaux.--Winter arrangements.--Childrens' meetings--schools.--The brethren's settlements contrasted with the heathen.--Progress of religion at the different stations.--Books printed in the Esquimaux language.--Number of the settled Esquimaux.--Epidemic at Nain--its consequences.--General view of the mission. 238