I will content myself with a few explanations
of the accompanying view of the station from the bay.
In winter the aspect of the whole landscape would
be very much whiter, and the foreground not water,
but ice. The bare, rocky ship hill which forms
the background still had considerable patches of snow
when we arrived early in August, but it melted from
day to day during our stay, for the summer sun asserts
its power during its brief sway. The mission-house
in the centre of the picture is connected with the
church by a covered passage, and the building with
the three gable-ends, on the other side of it, is the
store. The gardens, really wonderful in results
when the climate is considered, are situated at some
distance to the rear of the mission premises.
The Eskimo village lies mostly to the right, where
only one or two log huts are visible in the picture.
Some of the native houses are behind the mission premises,
including that of Jonas and his capable wife Lydia,
perhaps the neatest and best furnished home of an
Eskimo to be found in Labrador. The three windows
to the right of the front door of the mission-house
belong to the rooms occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Asboe.
If there be as much snow this winter as last, they
may be in the dark, part of the time. The three
centre windows of the upper story show Mr. Hansen’s
rooms, and on each side of these are the dwellings
of Mr. and Mrs. Kaestner and Mr. and Mrs. Lundberg.