CHAPTER VII. Desire of the heathen to hear the Gospel.--Brethren meditate a new settlement--voyage to explore the country.--Quiet course of the mission--advantages of their church discipline.--Death of Burghardt.--Exertions of the aged survivors.--Schreiber, superintendant, arrives.--Anxiety of the native Christians to attend the ordinances of religion.--Advantages of the Bible as a school-book.--Four missionaries unexpectedly carried to England.--Baptized Esquimaux seduced by traders.--Perilous voyage of the returning missionaries--striking accident.-- Schreiber retires from the superintendance--Kohlmeister succeeds--his journeyings to Okkak, to Nain.--Stability of the work of God at Nain--hopeful deaths--conversion and recovery of a young native.--Remarkable preservation of an Esquimaux youth. 269 CHAPTER VIII. Fiftieth anniversary of the missionary vessel's first arrival in Labrador--jubilee of the mission celebrated at Nain.-- Summary view of the success of the gospel in Labrador during that period.--Instance of maternal affection.--Esquimaux contribute to the Bible Society.--British sloop of war, Clinker, visits Hopedale.--Captain Martin's testimony to the good effect of the brethren's labours--visits Nain and Okkak--consequences of his favourable report. 304 CHAPTER IX. The Brethren obtain a further grant of land on the east coast of Labrador--projected fourth settlement delayed.--Progress of the three settlements in the interval.--Instances of wonderful preservation--Ephraim--of Conrad, Peter, and Titus.--Report of the Superintendant, Kohlmeister, on the general state of the Mission.--Letter from Brother and Sister Kmoch, to a friend in Edinburgh.--Commencement and progress of Hebron, the fourth station. 318 THE MORAVIANS IN LABRADOR. INTRODUCTION. The Moravian Mission in Labrador was attempted under circumstances scarcely less discouraging than those under which the brethren were enabled to achieve the moral conquest of Greenland, was attended with incidents still more romantic, and blest with a success equally remarkable. But it possesses a peculiar interest to British readers, having been commenced under the auspices of the British government, and promising a more extensive influence among tribes with whom British intercourse is likely to produce a wider and more intimate connection. The Peninsula of Labrador extends from the 50th to the 61st deg. N.L. It is somewhat of a triangular form; bounded on the north by Hudson's Straits, and indented by Ungava Bay; on the east by the northern ocean; on the south by Canada and the Gulph of St Lawrence; and on the west by Hudson's and James' Bay, which last coast, by a kind of anomaly in nomenclature, has been called the East Main, from its situation to that great inland sea.