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and consoled them during their sufferings. Such was the mortality, he was often obliged to remove the dead bodies in the middle of the night, lest the survivors should perish from the stench; still lie contincd to receive such as implored his help, and by this kind of con­ ciliating conduct gainod more proselytes than the Spanish fanatics in America, ever obtained by their severity and cruelty. Among those, who, as it were, died in his arms, was an old Greenlander, who had been always stedfastly averse to the exhortations of Egede, but cor­ rected by all he saw of the unaffected goodness of this charitable man, he was moved, and felt a veneration for the religion which could so nobly inspire and support its votaries. “ Thou,” said he, addresssing Egede in his last moments, “ although a stranger, hast “ done more for us than we could ever have H expected from each other. Thou hast nursed “ us? buried our dead that they might not be “ the prey of ravenous birds and beasts. Thou “ hast taught us how to become happy, that “ we may gladly die in the expectation of a