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Some time after, her parents, Joseph and Justina, came from Okkak to Nain, to inquire whether Anauke, who seems to have been a rich Esquimaux, was a candidate for baptism, or had ever spoken to the missionaries on the subject of conversion; and when informed that he had not, they said that since their daughter had declared her attachment to the believers, and her purpose to live with Jesus, they would never bestow her upon a stranger.
Missionaries leave London erect a mission-house at Nain regulations for their intercourse with the natives visited by great numbers manner of instruction they retire in winter, are visited by the Brethren in their houses. Death of Anauke. An incantation. Adventures in search of a dead whale. P.E. Lauritz deputed by the conference visits the missions his excursion along the coast.
In a division of the house where they lodged, they found three widows dwelling together, and one of them informed them that her husband, Anauke, who had died the year before, had said to her, when she was mourning over him in his last illness, "Be not grieved for me, I am going to heaven, to Jesus who has loved his people so much!"
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