. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . x, who visited us from Proven, dragging their ka-yacks and themselves over seven miles of the pack,and then paddling merrily on board. For two glassesof rum and a sorry ration of salt-pork, they kept turn-ing somersets by the dozen, making their egg-shellskiffs revolve sideways by a touch of the paddle, andhardly disappearing under the water before they wereheads up again, and at the gangway to swallow theirreward. The inshore
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . x, who visited us from Proven, dragging their ka-yacks and themselves over seven miles of the pack,and then paddling merrily on board. For two glassesof rum and a sorry ration of salt-pork, they kept turn-ing somersets by the dozen, making their egg-shellskiffs revolve sideways by a touch of the paddle, andhardly disappearing under the water before they wereheads up again, and at the gangway to swallow theirreward. The inshore ice opened on the thirtieth, and towardevening we left the hospitable moorage of our iceberg,and made for the low, rounded rocks, which the Hoskypointed out to us as the seat of the settlement. Theboats were out to tow us clear of the floating rubbish,as the light and variable winds made their help nee- ESQUIMAUX GUESTS. 489 essary, and we were slowly approaching our anchor-age, when a rough yawl boarded us. She brought apleasant company, Unas the schoolmaster and parishpriest, Louisa his sister, the gentle Amalia, Louisascousin, and some others of humbler The baptismal waters had but superficially regen-erated these savages: their deportment, at least, didnot conform to our nicest canons. For the first ^yominutes, to be sure, the ladies kept their faces closecovered with their hands, only withdrawing them toblow their noses, which they did in the most primi-tive and picturesque manner. But their modesty thusassured, they felt that it needed no further volunteered a dance, avowed to us confidential-ly that they had educated tastes—Amalia that shesmoked, Louisa that she tolerated the more enliven-ing liquids, and both that their exercise in the openair had made a slight refection altogether is the virtue of these wild regions: ourhard ta«k, and cranberries, and rum were in requisi-tion at once. It is not for the host to tell ta
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