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The pastors of these churches are (21)
stated to be doing good work among
the Eskimos as well as the Danes.
At some, if not all, settlements
where there are churches the pas-
tors are the teachers in the schools
as well. I was told that most of
the Eskimos can read and some of
can write.
The hulk of the steamship "Fox",
vessel
the famous ship in which Captain
F. L. McClintock, R.N., made his
successful hunt for proofs of the
fate of the Sir John Franklin expedi-
tion lies beached at Godhavn and
is an object to interest all arctic
travellers. After completing her
work in the Far North, she was sold
to the Danes and was used for thirty
years in the transportation of cargo.