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."