An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . thedeath of King Frederick, government grew negligent of the distantsetlienient, and finally ordered its return. Egede, with ten others,remained, and two years alter, the new monarch, having relaxedhis opposition, sent out fresh provisions and three Moravian mi:^-sionaries. These settled New Hernhutt, on Balls river, and withEgede commenced, with renewed vigour, the instruction of
An illustrated history of the New world : containing a general history of all the various nations, states, and republics of the western continent ..and a complete history of the United States to the present time .. . thedeath of King Frederick, government grew negligent of the distantsetlienient, and finally ordered its return. Egede, with ten others,remained, and two years alter, the new monarch, having relaxedhis opposition, sent out fresh provisions and three Moravian mi:^-sionaries. These settled New Hernhutt, on Balls river, and withEgede commenced, with renewed vigour, the instruction of thenatives. Their labours w^ere attended with success; and in 1747,they erected the first church ever built in Greenland. From thistime, their own number, as well as that of their converts, steadilyincreased, and the colony finally assumed comnjercial importance,in ife37, West Greenland contained thirteen colonies, fiiieen com-mercial establishments, and ten missionary stations. The principal ofthe latter are Lichenfels, Lichtenau, and New Hernhutt. Upper-navic, latitude 12° 30, is the most northern station. The prmcipalexports are whale oil, eider down, and the skins of reindeer, sealand bear. CHAPTER XIIL. RUSSIAN AMERICA. HE extensive region known as Russian America,IS a country of ice, rocks, islands, barrens, andforests. It includes the Peninsula of Alaska andthe Aleutian Islands. Its condition in 1837 isthus described by an officer of the Hudsons BayCompany:—The Russian Fur Compan3rs principal esta-blishment on the north-west coast is named New Archangel,formerly Sitka, and situated in Norfolk Sound, in north lati-tude 57°, west longitude 132° 20. It is maintained as aregular military establishment, garrisoned by about three hundredofficers and men. with good natural defences, mounting sixteen shorteighteens, and twelve long nine-ponnders, and is the head-quartersof the governor of the Russian army. The Russians have otherestablishments on the coast and islands to t
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