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diff --git a/21819-8.txt b/21819-8.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3ee2f09 --- /dev/null +++ b/21819-8.txt @@ -0,0 +1,1995 @@ +The Project Gutenberg eBook, Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian, by Thomas +Boyles Murray + + +This eBook is for the use of anyone anywhere at no cost and with +almost no restrictions whatsoever. You may copy it, give it away or +re-use it under the terms of the Project Gutenberg License included +with this eBook or online at www.gutenberg.org + + + + + +Title: Kalli, the Esquimaux Christian + A Memoir + + +Author: Thomas Boyles Murray + + + +Release Date: June 12, 2007 [eBook #21819] + +Language: English + +Character set encoding: ISO-8859-1 + + +***START OF THE PROJECT GUTENBERG EBOOK KALLI, THE ESQUIMAUX CHRISTIAN*** + + +E-text prepared by a www.PGDP.net volunteer, David T. 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MURRAY, M.A. + + + + + + + +Published Under the Direction of +the Committee of General Literature and Education, +Appointed by the Society for Promoting +Christian Knowledge + + +LONDON. + +Printed for the +Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, +Sold at the Depositories, +Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, +4, Royal Exchange, and 16, Hanover Street, Hanover Square, +and by All Booksellers + +_Price Sixpence._ + +[Illustration: Kallihirua, signature] + + +KALLI, THE ESQUIMAUX CHRISTIAN. + +A Memoir + +by + +THE REV. T. B. MURRAY, M.A. + +Author of "Pitcairn, the Island, the People, and +the Pastor" + + +Published Under the Direction of +the Committee of General Literature and Education, +Appointed by the Society for Promoting +Christian Knowledge + +London + +Printed for the +Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge +Sold at the Depositories +Great Queen Street, Lincoln's Inn Fields, +4, Royal Exchange, and 16, Hanover Street, Hanover Square +and by All Booksellers + +1856 + + + + +CONTENTS + + PAGE +Kallihirua the Esquimaux 7 +Her Majesty's Ship "Assistance" 8 +Cape York 9 +Kallihirua on board the "Assistance" 10 +The Esquimaux Graves 11 +Kallihirua's Family 12 +Lines on "Kallihirua in the Ship" 13 +Description of the Esquimaux 15 +Admiral Beechey's Account 16 +The Seal 17 +The Narwhal 18 +Sir W. Edward Parry's Account 19 +Need of Christian Instruction 21 +Kallihirua's Tribe 22 +Kallihirua in England ib. +His fondness for Prints and Drawings 23 +Seal Hunter 24 +Sights in England 25 +Great Exhibition of 1851 26 +St. Augustine's College 27 +College Studies 28 +Reverence for Sacred Places 29 +Illness from changes in the Weather 30 +Greenland-Esquimaux Vocabulary 31 +Visit to Kalli at College 32 +His Amusements and Occupations 34 +Baptism of Kallihirua 36 +Stanzas by the Warden 43 +Kalli at St. John's, Newfoundland 45 +Death of Archdeacon Bridge 47 +Intelligence from Newfoundland 48 +Allusion to Prince Le Boo 49 +Accounts from St John's 50 +Letter from Kalli 51 +Kalli's Illness and Death 52 +Legacy to a Friend 56 +Funeral 57 +Intended Memorial 58 +Practical Reflections 59 +Conclusion 60 + + +ILLUSTRATIONS + +Portrait of Kallihirua _To face Title Page_ +Map, including his Birthplace _To face Page_ 10 +Entrance to a Snow Hut _Page_ 15 +Esquimaux Striking a Narwhal 18 +Seal Hunter 24 +Walrus and Seal 35 +St. Martin's Church, Canterbury _To face page_ 39 + + + + +KALLIHIRUA THE ESQUIMAUX. + + +Kallihirua, notwithstanding the disadvantages of person (for he was +plain, and short of stature, and _looked_ what he was,--an Esquimaux), +excited a feeling of interest and regard in those who were acquainted +with his history, and who knew his docile mind, and the sweetness of +his disposition. + +Compliance with the precept in the Old Testament, "Love ye the +stranger[1]," becomes a delight as well as a duty in such an instance +as that about to be recorded, especially when we consider the +affecting injunction conveyed in the Epistle to the Hebrews, "Be not +forgetful to entertain strangers, for thereby some have entertained +angels unawares[2]." + +[Footnote 1: Deut. x 18.] + +[Footnote 2: Heb. xiii 2.] + + + + +Her Majesty's Ship "Assistance" + + +Erasmus Augustine York, whose native name was Kallihirua, was brought +to England on board Her Majesty's ship "Assistance," Captain Erasmus +Ommanney, in 1851. Captain Ommanney was second in command of the +expedition under the orders of Captain Horatio Austin, C.B., which was +dispatched in May, 1850, in search of the missing vessels of Sir John +Franklin, the "Erebus" and "Terror". Franklin had quitted England on his +perilous and fatal enterprise in May, 1845. + +Much interest was attached to the young Esquimaux, who was considered +to be about sixteen years of age in August, 1850. He was one of a +tribe inhabiting the country in the vicinity of Wolstenholme Sound, at +the head of Baffin's Bay, in 76° 3' north latitude, the nearest +residents to the North Pole of any human beings known to exist on the +globe. He was the only person ever brought to this country from so +high a northern latitude. His tribe was met with by the late Sir John +Ross, during his voyage in 1818, and was by him called the Arctic +Highlanders. + + + + +Cape York + + +It appears that, when the expedition under Captain Austin's command +was passing Cape York, in August, 1850, after its release from the ice +in Melville Bay, natives were seen from the "Assistance". +Captain Ommanney went with the "Intrepid" (one of the vessels +comprising the expedition) to communicate with them, when it was +ascertained that H.M.S., "North Star," had passed the winter in the +neighbourhood. The fate of this vessel was then a matter of anxiety, +as by her instructions she had been cautioned to avoid passing the +winter in those regions. The tribe thus discovered consisted of only +three families, residing in their summer huts at Cape York. As no +steamer had ever before found its way to these seas, it was +interesting to watch the impression upon the singular beings now +visited, when they descended into the engine-room. The large furnaces +and machinery astonished them. The latter, on being put in motion, +made them take to their heels with fright, and they ran out of the +engine-room on deck as fast as they could. + + + + +Kallihirua on board the "Assistance" + + +It was after this first interview that the report was raised of the +massacre of two ships' crews in 1846. Captain Ommanney, accompanied by +Captain Penny, with his interpreter, immediately returned to Cape +York, and had a long interview with the natives. They most +emphatically denied the whole statement, adding, that no ship had +ever been on their coasts except the "North Star," and passing +whalers. Then it was, that Kallihirua consented to show Captain +Ommanney where the "North Star" had wintered, and to join the ship, +for the purpose of being useful as an interpreter, in the event of +their meeting with any natives during the search for the missing +expedition under Sir John Franklin. Parting (for awhile, as he +supposed) with his immediate relatives, and with the only people whom +he knew on earth, he threw himself into the hands of strangers in +perfect confidence. Having arrived on board the "Assistance," he put +off his rough native costume, submitted to the process of a good +washing, and, being soon clad in ordinary European clothing, which was +cheerfully contributed by the officers, the young Esquimaux with much +intelligence performed the duty of pilot to the place where the "North +Star" had wintered. + + + + +The Esquimaux Graves + + +On entering Wolstenholme Sound[3], Kallihirua, or, as he was +familiarly called, KALLI, directed Captain Ommanney and the officers +to the late winter-station of his tribe, the spot having been +abandoned in consequence of some epidemic, probably influenza, which +had carried off several persons. On entering the huts, a most +distressing sight presented itself. A heap of dead bodies, about +seven, in a state of decomposition, lay, one over the other, clad in +their skin-clothing, as if suddenly cut off by the hand of death. The +survivors, from fear of infection, had left the remains of their +relatives unburied. It was an affecting scene in such a remote and +desolate region, separated from all communication with the human race. +Near the huts was the burial-ground, with several well-formed graves +of heaps of stones. On one lay a spear, which one of the officers of +the "Assistance" took up, to bring away. Some of the crew were +examining the graves to see whether they contained any of our missing +countrymen. Seeing this, Kalli ran up to the officer, and, with tears +and entreaties, as well as he could make himself understood, begged +him and the men to desist from the work of desecration. + +[Footnote 3: For Wolstenholme Sound and Cape York see the annexed map.] + +[Illustration: Map of Western Arctic] + +[Illustration: THE ARCTIC REGIONS OF AMERICA +_London. Published by the Society for protecting Christian Knowledge._] + + + + +Kallihirua's Family + + +Poor Kalli's lamentations were quite heartrending. His feelings were, +of course, respected, the graves were at once built up again, and the +spear replaced. Captain Ommanney learnt afterwards from Kalli, that +it was his father's grave, over which the spear had been placed by +friends of the deceased. They have a tradition that in a future state +the means of hunting are still required, and, because in this world +the search of food is the chief object of life, the hunting-lance is +deposited on the grave. + +The young stranger subsequently lived on board the "Assistance". He +was placed under the care of the serjeant of Marines, who instructed +Kalli in the rudiments of reading and writing, and to whom he became +much attached. By his amiable disposition he made himself welcome and +agreeable to all the expedition, and, as, in consequence of the state +of the ice, no opportunity was offered of landing him on his native +shores, on the return of the vessel past York Inlet, he was brought to +England. The leaders of the expedition conferred the surname of York +upon him, from the locality in which he was found. To this the name of +Erasmus was prefixed, after that of the gallant Captain Ommanney. + + + + +Lines on "Kallihirua in the Ship" + + +Kalli was a twin. His father, whose grave has been mentioned, had been +dead for some years, but he had a mother living, of whom he often +spoke with duty and affection. His father's name was Kirshung-oak. His +mother's Sa-toor-ney. He had two sisters living with their mother. A +touching circumstance, connected with his first introduction to our +countrymen, has been adverted to, which gave rise to the following +lines by the writer of this memoir. They were published in the "Gospel +Missionary," in the year of the arrival of Kallihirua, and are +supposed to be spoken by a British sailor on board the "Assistance"-- + + +KALLI IN THE SHIP + +A frost, like iron, held the air, + A calm was on the sea, +But fields of ice were spreading there, + And closing on our lee. + +Our ship half bound, as if aground, + Was scarcely seen to go. +All hands on deck were gather'd round + The little ESKIMAUX. + +For he had come amongst our crew, + A week or so before, +And now we knew not what to do + To put him safe ashore. + +Poor lad, he strain'd his eyes in vain, + Till tears began to come, +And tried if he could see again + His mother and his home. + +The Captain then saw through his glass + The Inlet, and the Bay, +But floes of ice, as green as grass, + And icebergs block'd the way. + +"Up with the sail!--the wind's awake!" + Hark to the Captain's call, +"I see, my boys, we shall not make + York Inlet, after all." + +We look'd upon the swarthy lad, + Then look'd upon each other, +And all were sure that he was sad + With thinking of his mother. + +We cheer'd him up, and soon he grew + So useful and so kind, +The crew were glad, and Kalli too, + He was not left behind. + +He learn'd to make the best of it, + And now, by time and care, +They tell us he can read a bit, + And say an easy prayer. + +O Kalli, fail not, day by day, + To kneel to God above; +Then He will hear you when you pray, + And guard you with his love. + +Go on, my friend, in years and grace, + Your precious time employ, +And you will pass, in wisdom's race, + The idle English boy. + +Nay, if you learn and practise too + The lessons of your youth, +Some heathen tribes may gain from you + The light of Gospel truth. + + + + +Description of the Esquimaux + + +It may here be interesting to say a few words respecting the people +who inhabit the gloomy abodes whence Kallihirua came, and where he had +passed the greater part of his life. + +[Illustration: ENTRANCE TO A SNOW-HUT] + + + + +Admiral Beechey's Account + + +"The characteristic features of the Esquimaux," says Admiral Beechey, +"are large fat round faces, high cheek-bones, small hazel eyes, +eyebrows slanting like the Chinese, and wide mouths." They are +generally under five feet high, and have brown complexions. Beechey, +in his Narrative of a Voyage to Behring's Strait, &c., in H.M.S. +"Blossom," gave a curious and particular description of the habits and +customs of the Esquimaux, their wretched hovels, or "yourts," +snow-dwellings, and underground huts, and the general want of +cleanliness in their persons and dwellings. + +Speaking of a tribe which he visited, he says, "We found them very +honest, extremely good-natured and friendly. Their tents were +constructed of skins, loosely stretched over a few spars of +drift-wood, and were neither wind nor water tight. The tents were, as +usual, filthy, but suitable to the taste of their inhabitants, who no +doubt saw nothing in them that was revolting. The natives testified +much pleasure at our visit, and placed before us several dishes, +amongst which were two of their choicest,--the entrails of a fine +seal, and a bowl of coagulated blood. But desirous as we were to +oblige them, there was not one of our party that could be induced to +partake of their hospitality. Seeing our reluctance, they tried us +with another dish, consisting of the raw flesh of the narwhal, nicely +cut into lumps, with an equal distribution of black and white fat, but +they were not more successful here than at first." + + + + +The Seal + + +The seal's flesh supplies the natives with their most palatable and +substantial food, which however has a fishy flavour, as the creatures +feed chiefly on fish. Seals are sometimes taken on land, when +surprised basking in the sun, with their young. As soon as they are +alarmed by the sight of their enemies, they scuttle away, and make for +the sea[4]. It is on the great deep that the Esquimaux, driven by +hunger, chiefly seeks his precarious food. In his light canoe, which +is made of seal-skins stretched over a slight framework of wood, he +hunts, in all weathers, for his prey, especially for the much-prized +Narwhal. + +There, tumbling in their seal-skin boat, +Fearless, the hungry fishers float, +And from the teeming seas supply +The food their niggard plains deny. + +[Footnote 4: See ZOOLOGICAL SKETCHES, _Common Seal_. Published by the +Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge.] + + + + +The Narwhal + + +[Illustration: ESQUIMAUX STRIKING A NARWHAL] + +The same intrepid boldness is shown in their chase of the reindeer, +the bear, and the fox. Over the boundless deserts of snow they are +borne rapidly along by their faithful dogs, which are harnessed to a +sledge, six or seven to the team, and which scamper away, often in +seeming confusion, but with a precision of aim and object which is +perfectly surprising. No country presents a finer specimen of that +honest, affectionate, much-enduring creature, the dog. Kindness to +animals is always praiseworthy, and to the honour of the Esquimaux +women it must be said, that they are remarked for their humane +treatment of these dogs. They take care of them when they are ill, and +use them better than the men do. Still under blows and hard usage the +dogs are faithful, and willing to labour. + + + + +Sir W. Edward Parry's Account + + +The Esquimaux sometimes use slabs of ice for the walls of their huts, +cementing them together with snow and water. Kennels for their dogs +are also made of the same material. The late Admiral Sir W. Edward +Parry, in the course of a voyage commenced in May, 1821, the chief +object of which was the discovery of the North-West passage, availed +himself of a winter's imprisonment in the ice, to observe and record +the ways and manners of the Esquimaux, whose guest he was. His account +is on the whole satisfactory. "I can safely affirm," said he, "that, +whilst thus lodged beneath their roof, I know no people whom I would +more confidently trust, as respects either my person or my property, +than the Esquimaux." + +He also described their domestic character. The affection of the +parents towards their children showed itself in a thousand ways, and +the children on their part have so much gentleness and docility as to +render any kind of chastisement unnecessary. Even from their earliest +infancy, they are said to possess that quietness of disposition, +gentleness of demeanour, and uncommon evenness of temper, for which in +more mature age they are for the most part distinguished. Disobedience +is scarcely ever known; a word or even a look from a parent is enough. + +These traits, added to industry and endurance of various kinds of +difficulty, form the fair side of the picture, such as that amiable +and distinguished officer was fond of presenting. The exhibition of +these features of character was probably called forth, in a great +degree, by his own kindness and good management, whilst living among +them. + + + + +Need of Christian Instruction + + +But doubtless there are other and less favourable points of view in +which these people must be sometimes considered. At all events, it is +sad to learn, from the silence of some travellers, and the actual +statements of others, that the Esquimaux do not appear to have any +idea of the existence of a Supreme Being, or to hold any notion of +religion. Separated from the whole civilized world, and frequently +finding it a struggle to live, even with the help of their faithful +dogs, they are objects of pity and concern, rather than of sanguine +hope and expectation to the Christian mind. But were an opportunity to +occur of carrying the Gospel to their snow-clad land, there is little +doubt that the remark of Parry, applied to an individual of one of +their tribes, might be used of all: "On dispositions thus naturally +charitable, what might not Christian education, and Christian +principles effect?" + + + + +Kallihirua's Tribe + + +Certainly, the instance now before the reader affords a good +illustration of this view of the Esquimaux character. It is Captain +Ommanney's opinion that Kallihirua's tribe may be regarded as a +remnant of the pure race which, no doubt, in ages past migrated from +Asia along the coasts of the Parry Group of Islands and Barrow's +Straits. The features, and formation of skull, bespeak Tartar +extraction. "Their isolated position," he adds, "being far north of +the Danish settlements in Greenland, and far removed from the American +continent, has kept them uncontaminated with any of the various mixed +breeds of which the Esquimaux in those regions must be composed." + + + + +Kallihirua in England + + +Captain Ommanney, soon after his arrival in England, brought young +Kallihirua to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. At that +time he could only speak a few words, such as "Ship," "Sea," "Very +sick;" "England, things very nice," "Captain very good". From his +language and gesture it was gathered, that he had suffered much from +sea-sickness on the voyage; that he had been treated with the utmost +care and kindness on board, and that he was highly pleased with +English fare, and with the reception which he had met with in this +country. + +His manners were so gentle, and even polite, without any seeming +effort, as to excite astonishment in those who knew how short a time +he had enjoyed the advantages of education. It was clear that great +pains had been taken with him on board the "Assistance," where his +great study had been to adapt himself to the habits and manners of +those among whom his lot was so singularly cast. "In this," says +Captain Ommanney, "he succeeded; for people were surprised at his good +address, when he reached England." + + + + +His Fondness for Prints and Drawings + + +He was always much pleased with the company of young people, and +appeared quite at home with them. Some books and prints were placed in +the hands of the youth, and he expressed the greatest delight in +seeing views of ships in the ice, and the figure of an Esquimaux +watching for a seal. After gazing for a few moments at the latter, he +uttered a cry of pleasure, and said, "This one of my people!" It +seemed as if, for the time, he had been carried back to his own land, +which, however homely, was once his home. Had any proof been wanting +of the faithfulness of the representation, his hearty and joyous +approval of it would have afforded sufficient evidence of its +accuracy. + +The reader shall see the engraving of the lonely seal-hunter which so +much pleased poor Kalli. + + + + +Seal Hunter + +[Illustration: Seal Hunter] + + +In this situation, we are told, a man will sit quietly for ten or +twelve hours together, at a temperature of thirty or forty degrees +below zero, watching for the opportunity of killing and taking the +seal, which is supposed to be at work making its hole beneath in the +ice. The Esquimaux, partly sheltered from the "winter's wind," and +fast-falling snow, by a snow-wall, has got his spear and lines ready, +and he has tied his knees together, to prevent his disturbing the seal +by making the slightest noise. + + + + +Sights in England + + +Kalli, whilst in London, on a visit to the author, was taken to the +British Museum. With some of the objects there he was much gratified. +The antiquities, sculpture, and specimens of art and science, had not +such charms in his sight as had the life-like forms of stuffed animals +in that great national collection. With the seals, reindeer, and a +gigantic walrus, with bright glass eyes, he was especially struck and +amused, lingering for some time in the attractive apartment which +contained them. + +He had now and then much to bear from rudeness and incivility on the +part of some thoughtless persons, who derided his personal appearance, +though they were not successful in putting him out of temper. The +author recollects an instance of this in a street in London. He was +walking with Kalli, when two young men, who ought to have known +better, stared at the youth in passing, and laughed in his face: then +presently turning round, they said, as they pointed at him, "There +goes a Chinese!" He merely looked up, smiling, as if at their +ignorance, and want of proper feeling. + +It has been observed of the people of his nation, that they evince +little or no surprise or excitement at such things as occasion +admiration in others. When Kalli first came up the river Thames with +Captain Ommanney, and travelled from Woolwich by the railway, thence +proceeding through the wonderful thoroughfare from London Bridge to +the West End of the town, passing St. Paul's Cathedral, and Charing +Cross, he merely said, _It was all very good_. + +"I took him with me," said the Captain, "to the Great Exhibition, the +Crystal Palace, in Hyde Park. He beheld all the treasures around him +with great coolness, and only expressed his wonder at the vast +multitude of people." + + + + +Great Exhibition of 1851 + + +This is natural enough. Many of our readers may recall the feelings of +astonishment with which they viewed that large assemblage. On one of +the shilling days, in October, 1851, ninety-two thousand human beings +were collected together in the Crystal Palace at one time[5]. The +force of contrast could perhaps go no further than in this instance. +A young stranger who, in his own country, in a space of hundreds of +miles around him, had only three families (probably twelve persons) to +count, makes one of a multitude of more than ninety thousand of his +fellow-creatures, in a building of glass, covering only eighteen acres +of ground! + +[Footnote 5: This was the case on Tuesday, Oct. 7, 1851. The total +number of visitors on that day alone was 109,915.] + +He was taken to see the Horse Guards' Stables. On seeing a trooper +mount his charger, (both being fully accoutred,) Kalli was puzzled. He +could not account for the perfect order and discipline of the animal, +and the mutual fitness of the man and his horse, the one for the +other. + + + + +St. Augustine's College + + +In November, 1851, Kallihirua was placed, by direction of the Lords of +the Admiralty, at the suggestion of the Society for the Propagation of +the Gospel, in the Missionary College of St. Augustine's, at +Canterbury. This college, built on the site of the ancient monastery +of St. Augustine, was established in 1848, for the reception of +students intended for the work of the sacred Ministry in the colonies +and dependencies of the British Empire, as well as among the heathen. +The College, to which the Queen gave a charter of incorporation, owes +its origin chiefly to the munificence of A. J. B. Beresford Hope, +Esq., who purchased the ground, and gave the site. The College Chapel +was consecrated on the morning of St. Peter's Day, June 29th, 1848, +when seven prelates, with the Archbishop of Canterbury at their head, +were present. + + + + +College Studies + + +Kallihirua remained a student of the College, attending to the +instruction given him, and conducting himself well and properly in all +respects. Under the kind auspices of the Rev. H. Bailey, the learned +and judicious Warden of the College, who took the greatest interest in +him, he availed himself, as far as his powers admitted, of the +advantages of the institution. He appeared rightly to understand and +value the blessings of education in a civilized community, and +received with reverence the simple and saving truths of the Gospel. It +was hoped, that, should he willingly and intelligently embrace the +Christian faith, he might at no distant period convey the "glad +tidings of good things" as a missionary or catechist to his own +benighted friends and countrymen. + +In September, 1852, the Warden, in a letter, informed the author, that +Kallihirua had been in good health all the summer. "We consider him," +said he, "a youth of intelligence, and quick observation. His progress +in reading is necessarily slow, though he can manage words of four or +five letters, he is fond of writing, and succeeds very well. He is +very devout at prayers, and attentive to the religious instruction +given him. I think he will one day be of essential use to a missionary +in some northern region. He is grateful to you for your kind offer of +books, and will write a letter of acknowledgment." + + + + +His Reverence for Sacred Places + + +It was but a short time after his settling at St. Augustine's College, +that one of the students took him to see Canterbury Cathedral. The +reverent regard with which he had been taught to look upon a church, +as a place where prayer was made to God, manifested itself in his +inquiry, when entering the nave, "Whether he might cough there?" This +tendency to cough, arising from an ailment, the seeds of which had +probably been sown long before, was often observable; and he was very +susceptible of cold. + + + + +Illness from Changes in the Weather + + +In the spring of 1853 he suffered much from the variableness of the +season. The mode in which he described his state to a friend is very +simple and affecting. The original letter, which was entirely his own, +both in composition and handwriting, is here copied verbatim. It +commences with his signature:-- + +"E. YORK, St. Augustine's College. April, 1853. + +"My dear Sir, + + "I am very glad to tell, How do you do, Sir? I been + England, long time none very well. Long time none + very well. Very bad weather. I know very well, very + bad cough. I very sorry, very bad weather, + dreadful. Country very difference. Another day + cold. Another day wet, I miserable. + + "Another summer come. Very glad. Great many trees. + Many wood. Summer beautiful, country Canterbury." + +Should any reader be disposed to look with the smile of a critic on +this humble but genuine effort, let him bear in mind the difficulties +which poor _English_ adults have to encounter in learning to read and +write; and then let him judge of the obstacles in the way of one whose +existence had been spent with his native tribe, on fields of ice, and +in dark snow-huts. + +In all attacks of illness he was attended with assiduous kindness by +Mr. Hallowes, of Canterbury, the skilful surgeon employed by the +College, who showed much hospitality to Kalli. One of Mr. Hallowes' +family circle on Christmas-day was always the good-humoured +broad-faced Esquimaux. At their juvenile parties, the youth joined +cheerfully in the sports of the children, and he sometimes sung them +some of the wild and plaintive airs peculiar to his tribe. + +It is believed that Kalli never omitted his morning and evening +prayers by his bed-side, and his utterance was full of devout +earnestness. Mr. Bailey remembers once travelling with him to Deal, +and while in the railway carriage, the youth quietly took out of his +pocket a little book, which was afterwards found to be a collection of +texts for each day in the year. For some time he was reading +thoughtfully the text for the day. No notice was taken of this to him; +and as for himself, never perhaps was any one more free from the least +approach to ostentation. + + + + +Greenland Esquimaux Vocabulary + + +In the year 1853, Kalli rendered essential Service in the preparation +of a Greenland Esquimaux Vocabulary, for the use of the Arctic +Expedition of that year. The work was printed by direction of the +Lords of the Admiralty, with a short Preface acknowledging the +advantage of his assistance. Captain Washington, R.N., Hydrographer of +the Admiralty, says in the Preface, "Every word has now been revised +from the lips of a native. In the Midsummer vacation in 1852 +Kallihirua passed some days with me, and we went partly over the +Vocabulary. I found him intelligent, speaking English very fairly, +docile and imitative, his great pleasure appearing to be a pencil and +paper, with which he drew animals and ships. At the Christmas +holidays, we revised more of the Vocabulary, &c." + +A member of the Expedition afterwards visited St. Augustine's College +and stated that the Vocabulary had been found to be of much service. + + + + +Visit to Kalli at College + + +The writer of this Memoir well recollects the circumstances of a visit +which he paid with his family to St. Augustine's College, Canterbury, +on a bright day, in August, 1853, when (it being the vacation) only +three students remained in residence. These were 1. Kallihirua, 2. a +young Hindoo by name Mark Pitamber Paul, and 3. Lambert McKenzie, a +youth of colour, a native of Africa, sent to the College by the Bishop +of Guiana. Kalli, who was the only one of these personally known to +the author, did not at first appear. He had strolled out to witness a +cricket-match in a field near Canterbury, but Blunsom, the College +porter, said that he had promised to return by two o'clock, and that +he was very punctual. + +It is here due both to Blunsom and his wife, to say that they were +most kind friends to Kalli, watching over him with the most thoughtful +attention, and the tenderest care throughout. + +As the Cathedral clock struck two, Kalli entered the College-gates. +With hair black as the raven's wing, and eyes sparkling with +good-humour, he made his appearance; and soon showed a desire to do +the honours of the College. His dress was neat, like that of a young +English gentleman, and he had a gaiety of look and manner, but far +removed from foppery of apparel or demeanour. With true +politeness--that of the heart--he accompanied the visitors over the +Library, the Chapel, the Common Hall and the Dormitories of the +College; each student having a small bed-room and study to himself. + + + + +His Amusements and Occupations + + +Kalli took great pleasure in exhibiting the carpenter's shop, a +spacious crypt below the Library. Attention was there called to the +wooden frame of a small house, in the construction of which, it +appeared, he had borne a part. He said, when asked, that he should +most probably find the knowledge of carpentering valuable some day, +and that he should like to teach his countrymen the many good and +useful things which he had learned in his College. He spoke little, +and was evidently conscious of his imperfect pronunciation, but in +answer to a question on the subject, he said he hoped to tell his +people about religion, and the truths of the Gospel which he had been +taught in England. + +His amusements were of a quiet and innocent kind. He made small models +of his country sledges, one of which, a very creditable performance, +is in the Museum in the College Library, and a rough rustic chair, now +in the College garden, is of his manufacture. He was fond of drawing +ships, and figures of the Seal, the Walrus, the Reindeer, the +Esquimaux Dog, and other objects familiar to him in the Arctic +regions. + +[Illustration: WALRUS AND SEAL.] + +His sketches of animals and ships were very correct, and he used +sometimes to draw them for the amusement of children. + +When on board the "Assistance," he made a good sketch of the coast +line of the region which his tribe frequented, from Cape York to +Smith's Sound. + +The use which he made of the needle must not be forgotten. For a year +and a half, whilst at Canterbury, he went regularly for five hours a +day to a tailor to learn the trade, and was found very handy with his +needle. He proved to be of much use in the ordinary work of the trade. + + + + +Baptism of Kallihirua + + +We now come to an important event in the history of Kallihirua; his +Baptism, which took place on Advent Sunday, Nov. 27th, 1853, in St. +Martin's Church, near Canterbury. "The visitors present on the +occasion," said an eye-witness[6], "were, the Rev. John Philip Gell +(late Warden of Christ's College, Tasmania), accompanied by Mrs. Gell, +daughter of the late Sir John Franklin; Captain Erasmus Ommanney, R.N. +(who brought Kallihirua to England), and Mrs. Ommanney, Captain +Washington, R.N., of the Admiralty, and the Rev. W. T. Bullock. The +Rev. T. B. Murray, Secretary of the Society for Promoting Christian +Knowledge, who had been invited, was, in consequence of engagements in +London, unfortunately unable to be present". + +[Footnote 6: St. Augustine's Occasional Paper.] + +[Illustration: St. Martin's Church] + +"Towards three o'clock in the afternoon, small parties began to issue +from the College gateway in the direction of St. Martin's,--that +picturesque little church, looking from its calm hill-side over the +broad Stour valley, and over the cathedral and the steeples of the +town half emerging from the smoke. In the interior of this oldest of +the English churches there is an ancient font, which stands upon the +spot (if it be not the very font itself), where King Ethelbert, the +firstfruits of the Anglo-Saxon race, was baptized more than twelve +hundred and fifty years ago by Augustine. + +"In the enclosure round this font sat Kallihirua, and his 'chosen +witnesses' Captain Ommanney, and the Subwarden, Mrs. Bailey, and Mrs. +Gell. The remainder of the church was quite filled with an attentive +and apparently deeply-interested congregation, many of them of the +poorer class to whom Kalli is well known either by face (as indeed he +could not well fail to be), or as the comrade of their children in the +spelling-class at school. + +"After the Second Lesson, the Warden proceeded to the font, and the +Baptismal Service commenced. Kallihirua, as an adult, made the +responses for himself, and in a clear firm tone, which seemed to +intimate that he had made his choice for once and for ever, that he +had cast in his lot with us, and taken our people for his people, and +our God for his God, and felt with an intelligent appreciation the +privilege of that new brotherhood into which he was admitted. + +"May his admission within the pale of Christ's holy Church be, (as was +the prayer of many, beyond the walls of St. Martin's, on that day,) +both to himself and to many of his race, an event pregnant of eternal +issues! 'May the fulness of God's blessing,' to use the words of one +of our most valued friends, 'rest upon it, and make it the first +streak of a clear and steady light, shining from St. Augustine's into +the far North.' The Christian names added to his original Esquimaux +name, were 'Erasmus,' after Captain Ommanney, and 'Augustine,' in +remembrance of the College. + +"The service being concluded, an excellent sermon was preached by the +Rev. J. P. Gell, on the text, Isaiah lxv. 1: 'I am sought of them that +asked not for me; I am found of them that sought me not: I said, +Behold me, behold me, unto a nation that was not called by my name.' +Afterwards the same kind friend attended our Sunday evening meeting in +the Warden's house, and gave us some interesting details of the +missionary work (in which he had himself borne a part) in Van Diemen's +Land. The drift of his remarks was to give encouragement to the +principle of steady faithful persevering energy, undamped by early +difficulties, and not impatient of the day of small things; and to +show by convincing examples (especially that of Mr. Davis, a devoted +missionary in that country) how such conduct is sure in the end to +meet with a success of the soundest and most permanent kind, because +founded on the spontaneous sympathy of the people, and on the +blessings of the poor, 'not loud but deep.' + +"Kallihirua had received a very handsome present in the shape of a +beautifully bound Bible and Prayer Book, as a baptismal gift from the +Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge." + +It may be interesting to add, that the water used in the baptism was +from the river Jordan, and that it had been brought from thence by +Captain Ommanney himself. + +In the _Gospel Missionary_ for February, 1854, was a pleasing +description of the Baptism of Kallihirua: and this was the sound and +practical conclusion:-- + + "Before we conclude, we may, perhaps, express the hope that + our young friends will sometimes think kindly of their new + Christian brother, ERASMUS AUGUSTINE KALLIHIRUA, and that + they will pray that God will bless him, and make him to + advance more and more in the knowledge and the love of His + dear Son JESUS CHRIST. When they thus think of him who is now + made their own brother by baptism, and is thus brought into + the family of CHRIST'S people, let them learn to value the + good things which GOD has given _them_ in such rich + abundance. Let them be thankful that they were born in a + Christian country, in which they have been taught from + children to know the Holy Scriptures, which are able to make + them wise unto salvation through faith which is in CHRIST + JESUS." + + + + +Stanzas by the Warden + + +The following stanzas, written by the Warden on the occasion of the +baptism, will be read with pleasure, especially by those who are aware +how faithfully the amiable writer of them fulfilled his part in +preparing Kallihirua, not only for the right performance of such +duties as seemed to await him in life, but (what was far more +important) for an early death. + + +THE BAPTISM OF KALLIHIRUA + +"I WILL TAKE YOU ONE OF A CITY, AND TWO OF A FAMILY, AND I WILL BRING +YOU TO ZION."--Jer. iii. 14. + + Far through the icy bounds + Of Greenland's barren shore, + At duty's call, on mercy sent, + The brave are gone before. + + Beyond the haunts of men + They urge their tedious way, + When lo! a wandering tribe appears + By yonder northern bay. + + But who so wild, so lost + In ignorance and sin! + No God they know, no Saviour own, + Is there a soul to win? + + Yes, in that heathen race + One heart at least is found + That yearns for better things, by grace + In unseen fetters bound. + + Warm is the Christian's heart, + Outstretch'd the Christian's hand, + "Assistance" lends her friendly aid + To reach a Christian land. + + In this our calm retreat + He finds a peaceful home, + Is taught such learning as is meet, + In store for years to come. + + He learns to know and love + His Saviour and his God, + And now he is a brother dear, + By faith in Jesu's blood. + + O gracious Spirit! hear + Our prayer with one accord; + And train this new-born Christian heart + In thy most holy Word. + + Have pity on his race! + And bring them still to see + Their wretched state, and teach them all + The Father, Son, and Thee! + + To God the Father, Son, + And Spirit, glory be, + Who call'd, and saved, and sanctifies, + The co-eternal Three! + +Some of these verses were sung in the College Chapel on the evening of +Advent Sunday, 1853. + + + + +Kalli at St. John's, Newfoundland + + +The time having now arrived at which, according to the opinion of the +Bishop of Newfoundland, and the Warden of St. Augustine's, the +qualifications of Kallihirua might be turned to some account, as an +aid to missionaries in their efforts among the Esquimaux of Labrador, +he left England, in the autumn of the year 1855, for further training +at St. John's, Newfoundland. This step was taken at the expense of the +Admiralty, who agreed to allow him 25 pounds a year for three years. + +The following notice of his character appeared in the 'Occasional +Paper,' published in St. Augustine's College at the time of his +removal to Newfoundland. At every step of his short but remarkable +course, such willing testimony always awaited him. + +"Kallihirua, whose name is known as widely as that of his College, has +arrived at another crisis in his eventful history. Having resided more +than three years in College, he has been transferred to the +experienced care of the Bishop of Newfoundland, with the view to his +probable usefulness among the Esquimaux of Labrador. If integrity of +moral principle, gentleness of spirit, docility of manners, +willingness to be useful, and true Christian politeness, are essential +requisites in a Missionary, then is Kallihirua certain to fill his +place well, if only the right place is found for him." + +Kalli arrived in St John's, Newfoundland, on the 2nd October, 1855, +and, on the following day, wrote a letter to Captain Ommanney, telling +him that he had suffered on the voyage from the motion of the vessel, +which had caused severe headaches. He added, "St John's puts me in +mind of my own country. I have already found a great number of kind +friends, and feel so happy." + +He was immediately admitted into the College of the Theological +Institution for further training, and it was the Bishop's intention to +have taken him in the summer of 1856 in the Church-ship to the coast +of Labrador, with the view particularly of comparing his language with +that of the Esquimaux on the American continent, who are included +under the government, and consequently in the diocese, of +Newfoundland. + +That he was not unfitted for this task, appears from a passage in the +preface to the Greenland-Esquimaux Vocabulary. Captain Washington +observes: "On comparing the Labrador with the Greenland dialect of the +Esquimaux, it was found that nearly one-half the words given by Mr. +Platon were similar to the former. On going over the vocabulary with +Kallihirua, generally speaking he recognized the Greenland word. When +he did not do so, the Labrador was mentioned, which, in most cases, he +caught at directly. These words have been added. There would thus +appear to be even a greater degree of similarity between the Labrador +and Greenland dialects than might have been expected, and it is +evident that the Greenland dialect, as Mr. Platon states, is spoken by +all the Esquimaux to the head of Baffin's Bay." + +Kalli had some conversation with a Moravian Missionary from Labrador. +The language was in most respects similar, though there was evidently +a difficulty in understanding each other. + + + + +Death of Archdeacon Bridge + + +It may be mentioned, as a circumstance of melancholy interest, that, +besides Kallihirua, the late Venerable T. F. H. Bridge, Archdeacon of +Newfoundland, was to have accompanied and assisted the Bishop in this +voyage, which it was proposed should have extended to the Moravian +settlement. Moravian Missions have been established in Greenland for +more than a century. But the expedition contemplated by the Bishop +was more particularly designed to open Sandwich and Esquimaux Bays to +the much-needed Missionary. + +These projects it was determined, in the good providence of God, were +not to be realized. Archdeacon Bridge was prematurely carried off, in +the midst of his zealous and successful labours, at the end of +February, 1856. "He worked himself to death!" said the Bishop. "His +death was felt in the colony as a public loss." + + + + +Intelligence from Newfoundland + + +The author of this memoir had written to Kallihirua, whilst he was at +St. Augustine's, and had received from him a letter shortly, and +plainly expressed, which the Warden stated to have been composed and +written by the youth himself, and which proved how anxious he was to +do well that which was given him to do. The author afterwards often +thought of the amiable Kalli, and was in hopes of soon hearing from +him in his new abode in Newfoundland. But man proposeth, and God +disposeth. A St. John's paper, _The Newfoundland Express_, taken up +casually in July, 1856, conveyed the intelligence that Kallihirua had +passed away from this busy anxious world to another, and, we humbly +and reasonably hope, a better and happier. + +A melancholy interest generally attaches to the history of individuals +dying in a foreign and strange land, far from friends and home. The +separation from all they have known and loved is, in their case, so +entire, the change of their circumstances, habits, and associations, +so great, that such a dispensation specially appeals to the sympathy +of all Christian hearts. + + + + +Allusion to Prince Le Boo + + +Feelings of this kind are excited by the narrative of the early death +of Prince Le Boo, a youthful native of the Pelew Islands, who was +brought over to this country in July, 1784, and who, in the +spring-time of life, after little more than five months' stay in +England, fell a victim, to the small pox. In the memoir of that young +prince, who died at Rotherhithe, and was buried in the church-yard +there, in December, 1784, there are some points of resemblance to the +case under our notice. The natural and unforced politeness of the +youth, his aptness at conforming, in all proper things, to the habits +and customs of those to whose hospitality he was intrusted; his warm +and single-hearted affection for such persons, in whatever station, +as showed him kind offices, his desire for mental improvement; his +resignation and submission in his last illness to the will of God, +these are features which remind us of the subject of our present +memoir. Many are the tears which have fallen over the story of the +young and amiable Prince Le Boo. + + + + +Accounts from St. John's + + +But to resume the thread of the narrative respecting Kalli. During the +winter of 1855 and 1856 he had suffered frequently from cough, and +shown other signs of constitutional weakness. His cheerfulness, +however, had seldom failed him; his readiness to please, and be +pleased, to oblige, and be obliged, never. In letters which he sent to +friends in England, he always spoke with gratitude of the kindness +shown him, and of being very happy. + + + + +Letter from Kalli + + +The following letter to Mr. Blunsom, who, as it will have been seen, +had treated him with constant kindness, and done him much good +service, will be read with interest. + +"St John's College, Newfoundland, +January 7, 1856. + + "I received your kind letter by the December + mail, and am very sorry to hear of your illness. The + weather here is very cold, I feel it more than at + Cape York. I have begun to skate, and find it a + pleasant amusement. There is a lake a little + distance from the College, called, 'Quidi Vidi,' on + which we practise. The Bishop is very kind and good + to me. College here is not so large and fine a + place as St. Augustine's: nor are there so many + students. I hope that all my kind friends at + Canterbury are quite well. Please remember me + kindly to Mr. and Mrs. Gipps, and all at St. + Augustine's. With kind love to yourself, + + "I remain, yours affectionately, + + "KALLI." + + + + +Kalli's Illness and Death + + +With respect to the fatal attack under which he soon sunk, it has to +be mentioned, that he had gone out to bathe with one of his +fellow-students at St. John's, on Saturday, the 7th June. From +continuing too long in the water, which was very cold, he caught a +chill, and showed many symptoms of inflammation for some days. On +Wednesday, good medical assistance was called in, but his constitution +had received too violent a shock. The Surgeon had fears from the first +that his patient would not recover. It has been observed by medical +men, that Esquimaux have but little stamina, and generally fail under +the first attack of serious illness. Kalli was kindly watched and +assisted by the Rev. J. G. Mountain, and Mrs. Mountain, and his +fellow-students. He got rapidly worse. On the Thursday he seemed +utterly powerless, and could not lift up his arms, nor put them out of +his bed. He was very restless during the greater part of Friday night. + +"Soon after ten o'clock on Saturday morning, June 14th," said the +Bishop of Newfoundland, "his gentle soul departed. I saw him +frequently during his illness (three times the last day), and he +always assented most readily, when I reminded him of God's gracious +goodness in visiting him; and that it would be better for him to +depart, and be with Christ. It was remarkable that his English was +more clear and distinct in his illness than I had ever known it; and +though he said but very little, he seemed to understand better than +ever before. The last seizure was so sudden and violent, that he did +not articulate at all. He expired, whilst I was commending his soul to +his faithful Creator and most merciful Saviour." + +He is stated to have died of "melanosis of the lungs," a disease in +which the whole substance of the lungs turns completely black. It is +very slow in its first advances, but fearfully rapid in its latter +stages. The Bishop had the chest examined after death, and sent a copy +of the Surgeon's report to the Warden of St. Augustine's. + +In a full communication, made to the Warden, the Bishop said, "The +almost suddenness of our good gentle Kalli's removal makes it +difficult to realize the fact that 'he is gone.' I still look for his +familiar strange face among the students, wondering at his unwonted +absence. He seemed quite identified with our little company. We all +miss him greatly, but he has now entered on that perfect rest which he +seemed made for, and is delivered from a troublesome, naughty world +for which he was certainly not made." + +The Bishop also spoke of Kalli's _submission to those set over him; +his kindness to all around him, and his attention to all his religious +duties_. + +Many young persons, born and bred in our own country, and brought up +from the cradle in the very midst of Christian instruction, may glean +a valuable lesson from the character of this lamented Esquimaux +Christian. They may ask themselves, with some feeling of self-reproof, +whether they should have merited such praise from one so revered, and +so well qualified to judge. "Perhaps," added Bishop Feild, "I was a +little proud at being able to exhibit a far-off Esquimaux brought +near, and among my own scholars." + +During Kalli's last illness, which, though short, was not without +considerable suffering, the same spirit of resignation and +thankfulness, which he had always shown, was evinced. "Mr. D---- very +kind," "K---- very kind," "Mrs.---- very kind," "Sorry to give so much +trouble," were expressions continually on his lips, as he was visited +and assisted by his fellow-students, and other friends in succession. +His gentle spirit departed in the presence of the Rev. Thomas Wood, +the Rev. Principal of the College, and all his fellow-students. + +The Rev. J. F. Phelps, Vice-Principal of St. John's College, +Newfoundland, who had been a fellow-student of Kalli's, at St. +Augustine's, wrote thus, June 25, 1856, respecting him. + +"I have every reason to believe and hope that he has been translated +to a better state, and that he now rests in his Saviour: for though +he had not much knowledge, yet few indeed act up to their knowledge so +well and consistently as he did to his. It must be a comfort to you, +Sir, to be assured that in his last moments he was cared for, and +attended by all members of the College here, the students constantly +being with him, as well as Mr. and Mrs. Mountain and myself. He showed +himself very grateful for all that was being done for him, and +expressed great sorrow at giving so much trouble. He always spoke of +his friends in England with great affection, and was delighted +whenever he received letters from them, which he was always eager to +answer. Altogether, his was a very amiable character, and we all felt +his loss very much." + +In another letter from Mr. Phelps is the following passage:-- + +"During his last illness, in his conversation with me, it was evident +that he quite understood the principle on which we Christians ought to +bear our sufferings, patiently, and even thankfully, because of the +still greater sufferings which we deserve, and which our Divine +Saviour bore for us. I was, I confess, surprised at the readiness +with which he realized the truth and the force of this reasoning." + + + + +Legacy to a Friend + + +The author had often remarked the very grateful manner in which the +youth acknowledged any kindness shown towards him. He spoke with the +utmost affection of his dear friends, Captain Ommanney, Captain +Austin, R.N., the Rev. the Warden of St. Augustine's College, and Mrs. +Bailey. Mrs. Bailey, he said, taught him constantly his readings in +the New Testament, heard him his hymns, and corrected his +writing-exercises. The Rev. A. P. Moor, Sub-Warden of the College, was +also very kind to him, and gained his regard. + +Of the moderate means placed at his disposal he was always properly +careful, expending very little upon himself. He had a few pounds laid +up in the Savings' Bank at Canterbury. This amount, together with his +humble store of goods and chattels, consisting chiefly of the prints +which had adorned his room, he left, by a kind of will, to his +untiring and constant friend, Captain Ommanney, in token of gratitude +and regard. + + + + +Kalli's Funeral + + +The remains of Kallihirua were borne to the grave by his +fellow-students, and followed by the Vice-Principal of the College, +and by the Bishop of Newfoundland, as chief mourner. The Burial +Service in the church (St. Thomas's) was conducted by the Rev. Mr. +Wood, and in the cemetery by the Rev. Mr. Mountain, the Principal of +the College. The quiet solemnity of the service was in keeping with +the life and death of the gentle Kalli. + +Mrs. Mountain, of St. John's, Newfoundland, in whose house he lived, +and who had kindly assisted in instructing him, wrote as follows:-- + +"It is in sincere sorrow and mourning that I write to inform you that +we yesterday followed to the grave our poor Erasmus Kallihirua. He +died after only a few days' illness, brought on by incautiously going +out to bathe with one of our other students. On the following day, +when he came to me to read, as usual, he complained of great pain in +the chest and side, and so rapid was the inflammation, that the usual +remedies were unavailing. + +"Poor fellow, he was as patient and gentle during his illness, as he +always was when he was well and strong, and expressed perfect +resignation to God's will, and much thankfulness to those who +ministered to him. We all loved him for his unvarying kindness and +gentleness, his submission to those set over him, and his willingness +to serve all. I miss him so very much, not only in his daily lessons, +but in his constant knock at our door, to know whether I had any thing +for him to do in the garden, or a message in the town when he was +going out for a walk. + +"He looked very nice, lying in his silver-white coffin, covered with +flowers, and a bunch of lilies and wild pear-blossoms on his bosom. We +trust that he was one of the blessed meek who shall inherit the earth. +We were all with him when he breathed his last, the Bishop, and the +Principal of St. John's College, commending his soul to his faithful +Creator." + + + + +Intended Memorial + + +It is proposed to inscribe a record of Kalli, and of other deceased +students of St. Augustine's College, on a tablet in the crypt under +the College Chapel. A memorial stone will be erected over Kalli's +grave in St. John's, Newfoundland. + +With reference to the recent decease of some hopeful students of St. +Augustine's, who, after giving promise of much usefulness in the cause +of missions, had been removed from this earthly scene, Mr. Phelps +observed in a letter lately printed at the St. Augustine's College +Press:-- + +"The whole College is again reminded, that 'all flesh is grass,' and +that our life 'is even a vapour that appeareth for a little time, and +then vanisheth away.' Poor Kalli is no longer with us. He has been +made fit for the Master's use, and has been taken back by Him who lent +him to us." + + + + +Practical Reflections + + +The writer in the "Newfoundland Express" made the following practical +reflections on Kalli's early death, which suggest serious though +cheering thoughts:-- + +"It may seem to some persons but folly, and to others but mere +boasting, to point to this young man, as any fruit of, or recompense +for, the costly and calamitous Arctic expeditions. But others may not +think it all in vain, if thereby one soul has been saved, and an +example left to a few young men, of thankfulness and kindness to men, +duty and devotion towards God. Such was Erasmus Augustine Kallihirua, +once a poor benighted Esquimaux, but brought out of darkness into the +marvellous light of the Gospel, to be a pattern to some, who, with +much greater advantages, are far inferior in the best graces of the +Christian." + + + + +Conclusion + + +All that has been written will tend to show that Kallihirua was held +in much esteem and affection by those who knew him, and that some +tribute, (such as even this little memoir,) is due to the memory of +one who was well called "Erasmus," or "beloved." + +This, however, is not the chief end which the author had in view in +presenting an account of Kalli's short career among his adopted +countrymen. He would fain convey, amidst other wholesome lessons, that +of the uncertainty of life, and the necessity of working while it is +day. 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