and dangers
attending them. Uttakiyok's superstitious customs.
Singular effect of the tide in the bay of Ittimnekoktok.
Arrive at Kangertlualuksoak bay and river. Its situation.
Transactions there. 50

CHAPTER X.

Further transactions in Kangertlualuksoak Bay. The
Esquimaux women frightened by reports of Indians. Ceremony
of taking possession of this new-explored country, as
belonging to the King of England, and of naming the river
George river. Leave the bay and proceed to Arvarvik.
Whales caught by the Esquimaux in the shallows. Storm at
Kernertut. 56

CHAPTER XI.

Doubts expressed by Jonathan and the other Esquimaux on
the expediency of continuing the voyage. Consultations.
Resolve to proceed. Thunder-storm at Pitsiolak. Account of
Indians. Esquimaux cookery and hunting feasts. Arrival in
the river Koksoak. 62

CHAPTER XII.

Sail up the river Koksoak. Transactions in that region.
Dangerous eddy. Meet Esquimaux. Address to them. Their joy
and eagerness to have Missionaries, resident among them.
Find a suitable situation for a settlement. Description of
the country. 70

CHAPTER XIII.

Return to Okkak. 77

INTRODUCTION.

For these many years past, a considerable number of Esquimaux have been
in the annual practice of visiting the three missionary establishments
of the United Brethren on the coast of Labrador, OKKAK, NAIN, and
HOPEDALE, chiefly with a view to barter, or to see those of their
friends and acquaintance, who had become obedient to the gospel, and
lived together in Christian fellowship, enjoying the instruction of the
Missionaries.

These people came mostly from the north, and some of them from a great
distance. They reported, that the body of the Esquimaux nation lived
near and beyond Cape Chudleigh, which they call Killinek, and having
conceived much friendship for the Missionaries, never failed to request,
that some of them would come to their country, and even urged the
formation of a new settlement, considerably to the north of Okkak.

To these repeated and earnest applications the Missionaries were the
more disposed to listen, as it had been discovered, not many years after
the establishment of the Mission in 1771, t