Identifier: labradoritsdisco00gosl (find matches)
Title: Labrador: its discovery, exploration, and development
Year: 1910 (1910s)
Authors: Gosling, William Gilbert, b. 1863
Subjects: Labrador (N.L.) -- History
Publisher: London : A. Rivers
Contributing Library: University of California Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: MSN

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86. Whooping-cough and measles ravaged the unfortunateEskimos in 1880-2, causing the death of large numbers.So many were ill at one time during the summer of1882 that it was impossible for them to make theirusual provision for the winter, and great distress pre-vailed in consequence. There seems little of interest to be noted in the nextfew years. The food supply varied as usual, it beingalways either a feast or a famine with the Eskimos.The Annual Reports give one to understand that theproceeds of the trade had been steadily sufficient to paythe expenses of the Missions. In 1890 the number of Eskimos receiving the minis-trations of the Brethren was 1335 : \t Hopedale • 331 „ Zoar . . . 89 „ Nain 263 „ Okak • 350 „ Hebron . . 243 „ Ramah . 59 In 1892 a new era dawned for Labrador. From this time forward the Moravian Missionarieswere to have, in the person of Dr. Wilfred Grenfell,a new and powerful ally in the work of God whichthey had been carrying on for a century and a
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THE MORAVIAN BRETHREN 315 quarter. They had been called to this desolatecoast by the needs of the heathen Eskimos, then itsonly residents. We have read how their work hasprospered through the long years, and how the heathenEskimos have become genuine Christians, living humbleChristian lives that would set a good example to manya European and American community. We have read how a new transient population hasgradually invaded Labrador. How the traders, furriersand fishermen from Canada, America, and the OldCountry, and now from Newfoundland, have gradu-ally advanced along the coasts seeking the spoils ofthe deep and the treasures of the forest. At firstthe Straits of Belle Isle only were visited ; aboutthe beginning of the nineteenth century they had ad-vanced as far as Hamilton Inlet. In 1821 Capt. Martincould not obtain a pilot to take him farther north thanCape Harrison. It is i860 before we hear of New-foundland fishing schooners at Hopedale, and 1863before they reach Hebron. But t

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