iciently well to be understood.

"Angut," said Ujarak, after a few moments, "listen to me. I cannot live
long. Before I go, let me tell you that Nunaga is good--good--good!
She is true to you, and she has been very, very good to _me_. She
forgives me, though I meant to take her from you and from her home for
ever. But for her, I should have been left to die on the ice. She must
have had the Spirit of Jesus in her before she heard His name. Take
care of her, Angut. She will serve you well. Listen to her, and she
will teach you to be wise--"

He ceased abruptly. The energy with which he spoke proved to be the
last flare of the mysterious lamp of life. Next moment only the
worn-out tenement of the angekok lay before his people, for his spirit
had "returned to God who gave it."

The joy which had been so suddenly created by this unexpected union of
friends and kindred was damped, not only by the sad though happy death
of the wizard, but by the recurrence of the storm which had already
proved almost fatal to them all. The recent clearing up of the weather
was only a lull in the gale. Soon the sky overclouded again, snow began
to fall so thickly that they could not see more than a few yards in any
direction, and the wind drove them back into the hole or cave in the
snow out of which the short-lived sunshine had drawn them.

The body of Ujarak was buried under a heap of stones, for they had no
implements with which to dig a grave. Then Okiok and his party hastily
constructed a rude snow-hut to protect them from the storm. Here for
two more days and nights they were imprisoned, and much of that time
they passed in listening to the pleasant discourse of Hans Egede, as he
told the northern natives the wonderful story of redemption through
Jesus Christ, or recounted some of his own difficulties in getting out
to Greenland.

Few missionaries, we should imagine, have experienced or overcome
greater difficulties in getting to their field of labour than this same
earnest Norwegian, Hans Egede, though doubtless many may have equalled
him in their experience of dangers and difficulties after the fight
began.

Even after having made up his mind to go to Greenland out of pure desire
for the salvation of souls--for his knowledge of that inhospitable land
precluded the possibility of his having been _tempted_ to go to it from
any other motive--he had to spend over ten years of his life in
overcoming objections and obstr