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trouble & expense. I may yet have to change this opinion. When I do I will make record of it. I may here ask: "Up to the present time of what use have the ^[[ [[underlined]] hired [[/underlined]] ]] natives been? They have assisted in towing in 2 whales & have assisted some in throwing blubber into the Blubber room - [[underlined]] have done but little else! [[/underlined]] It is true they have cruised for whales But a very trifle compared with our men. They are a race worthy the attention of [[red bracket on left]] 
the Philanthropest & the Christian. Plant among them a colony of the [[underlined]] right [[strikethrough]] Sta [[/strikethrough]] stamp [[/underlined]] & after years of patient toil & well directed efforts, glorious fruits would follow! I cannot realize that here is a people having the elements of noblemen & even [[underlined]] greatness [[/underlined]] in their composition yet the Missionary world had turned a deaf ear to the fact. nothing however could be done toward the discovery of the jewels that are scattered all through these Regions until restricted intercourse by the whalers be established by legal enactments. The Esquimaux [[strikethrough]] ar [[/strikethrough]] are woefully debased from their original virtues by the visits of the whalers to these coasts. Worse & worse is their fate as these visits are continued.
See what a good work the King of Denmark is doing for Greenland Esquimaux! Colonies are there planted along the West coast of Greenland from near Cape Farwell to Upper nvvik. Churches & school houses - stone-houses, & stoves of every needful ^[[substandard]] variety, are to found at each important settlement. Priests & Catec^[[h]]ists, school-masters & mistresses are [[underlined]] educated [[/underlined]] to their several posts & are paid for their services abundantly out of the Coffers of the King.
Danes emigrate to this Land, marry & intermarry with the Esquimaux. Knowledge & virtue, Industry & prosperity are the results! [[strikethrough]] Noth [[/strikethrough]] Notwithstanding the expenses for the support of all this, including ^[[the salaries of]] Inspectors & Governors & several scores of not ^[[here]] mentioned government employees, yet the net proceeds of this apparently desolute land exceed [[strikethrough]] s [[/strikethrough]] ten thousands dollars (f[[?]]den[[?]] Coi[[strikethrough]] [[?]] [[/strikethrough]]) per annum. Well-doing Greenland! Pay for all thy imports - pay all the expenses of some 10 An^[[n]]ual ships [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] from Copenhagen to thy ports - pay for [[strikethrough]] the all [[/strikethrough]] expenses of thy Government, Schools, ,Churches. Missionaries etc etc & yet expect over ten thousand ^[[annually]] above all! How many Nations of this modern day do better? The excellent state of affairs in Greenland is from one fundamental 
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