Along the Labrador Coast / by Charles Wendell Townsend.

  • Townsend, Charles Wendell, 1859-1934.
Date:
1908
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Credit: Along the Labrador Coast / by Charles Wendell Townsend. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    boats crowded with brightly dressed natives. All are smiling to the fullest possible extent and shouting aksunae. The scene is novel and most interesting. On the north shore, with a backgroimd of forest, behind which rises a peaked mountain, are the mission buildings of the Moravian brethren, all painted white and ■with red roofs. Close to the largest house is the chapel. To the right of these buildings is a village of low, dirty Eskimo huts, all tumbled in together. We crowd the mail-boat, sailors, officers, and passengers, and are soon ashore, where we are kindly greeted by the Moravian brothers and sisters, who introduce us to their bishop who happens to be staying there. Under the gmdance of a Moravian, who acts as an inter- preter, we wander about the Eskimo settle- ment, which has the same characteristics as that at Hopedale. The mission house and chapel are courteously shown to us by Brother Schmitt and his hospitable wife, who have been here fifteen years. Everything is spotless. In the chapel there are benches for the Eskimos