eir signal deliverance.

In August 1783, Liebisch returned to Europe, and took his place in the
Unity's Elders Conference as a member, and Lister, with some
assistants, exercised the office of superintendant until 1786, when
John Christian Ludwig Rose was appointed to this office.

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.

Eleven years had the brethren now laboured for the conversion of the
Esquimaux amidst many difficulties and dangers, when circumstances
occurred which threatened to blast these fair hopes of success. In the
summer of 1782, the Esquimaux, for the first time since missionaries
had settled in the country, visited the English settlements in the
south. Tuglavina had persuaded Abraham, one of the baptized of Nain,
to go with him to Chateau Bay; and when they returned in October, they
reported that the Commander-in-chief had been quite overjoyed to see
baptized Esquimaux, and wished that more of them might come to visit
him, for he also had been baptized, and hoped that his soul after
death would go to heaven. He had reproved Mikak for not being
baptized, and warned then all against murders and adultery. Abraham
had bought a boat and still owed half of the price, yet he and
Tuglavina had each received a present of a musket and powder and ball,
nor had the women been s