be demanded back; but Mikak and her husband explained that the Europeans did not come to desire them to give back the boats, but that certainly if they did so any more they would be punished.  “That is good!” they replied “we believe your words, Mikak; and shall also love the great and powerful chief you saw in London, and his people, and will trade honourably with them;” and renewed their protestations of affection for the missionaries, telling them, “Now we are brethren.”  Drachart seized the opportunity of explaining what he meant by brethren:—­“Ye have heard that many of the Greenlanders are our brethren; now you must learn rightly to understand why we call one another brethren.  Hear what the reason is,—­our hearts and the Greenlanders are fast bound together by the love of Jesus our Saviour, who died on the cross for our sins, therefore do we call the Greenlanders, and all who are united in the death of Jesus, our brethren.  If you will now be converted to Jesus, then shall you be such brethren as the Greenlanders are.”  At a subsequent meeting, the missionaries informed them that they were desirous of finding a proper place on which to build a house, as it was their intention to return next year and settle among them, and requested their opinion as to where would be the best spot.  They told them there were many good places on the continent which they might examine and choose for themselves; or if they would prefer an island, they were welcome to the best; and the old men added, “You may build and dwell in our country, and do what you will, either on land or sea—­you shall have the same liberty as we have, for you are Innuit, as we are, and not such Kablunat as the other wicked Europeans.”  “Well,” replied Drachart, “you and we and the Greenlanders are also as one family.”  “Yes,” returned the old men, “we are friends and brethren.”  “Then, dear men, when you speak thus, do you in your hearts really think so?” “Yes! yes! you may firmly believe that.”  The brethren then proceeded from tent to tent, and distributed gifts, and obtained the marks of the old men, to the number of sixty-seven, to an agreement similar to that which they had made with the other Esquimaux, and the land from Monenguak to Kangerlack being marked out with four great stones, was given to the brethren for a possession.  The ceremony being concluded, Drachart addressed them thus:  “These signatures will shew to your children, and your children’s children, that you have received us as friends and countrymen, and have given us the piece of land marked out by these stones, and then your children, and your children’s children, will remember this transaction after your death, as if you spoke to them, and said, We, your fathers and grandfathers, called the brethren here for our sakes, and your sakes, and they have built a good house to meet daily with you, in that you may hear of the Lord in heaven.  Do not forget that we your parents have given this piece of land for an inheritance to our brethren that came to us