. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. he rear of our starting, the sun was down—to us; but, as I reached thesummit, his glorious rays burst upon me. And how glad was myheart as I planted the flag of America upon that mountain-top,and beheld it fluttering to the breezes of heaven in the suns red, white, and blue—the argent stars—seemed gifted with a speaking spirit that said,God hath ever blessed,and ever will bless this em-blem of freedom and pow-er! Yes, said I, mental-ly, that banner now floatswhere white man neverstood before. The Amer-ican flag pre
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. he rear of our starting, the sun was down—to us; but, as I reached thesummit, his glorious rays burst upon me. And how glad was myheart as I planted the flag of America upon that mountain-top,and beheld it fluttering to the breezes of heaven in the suns red, white, and blue—the argent stars—seemed gifted with a speaking spirit that said,God hath ever blessed,and ever will bless this em-blem of freedom and pow-er! Yes, said I, mental-ly, that banner now floatswhere white man neverstood before. The Amer-ican flag precedes all oth-ers in proclaiming that thisis the inceptive momentwhen civilization, with allits attendant virtues, makeshither its soul-inspiring was the scene before me as, drinking in thesweets presented to my eyes, I wended my way from one mount-ain-top to another. It was night when I got back to our encamp-ment, and I was immediately greeted with two welcome presentsof blueberries. Tweroong brought hers in a gold-banded china. INKUITS DESIRE TO HEAR OF HEAVEN. 401 saucer. And a most strange sight it was, here amid the gray oldrocks, and among this iron people, to see such an emblem of civ-ilization as a tea-saucer. It was brim full of ripe, luscious berries,which were then very abundant. As I descended from the mountains I saw that the white cloudswere kissing their tops. I knew this was an omen of bad weath-er. A thick fog soon settled, and this, on the following day, Au-gust 30th, turned into cold and wet, confining mc the whole timeto our tent. During the day Puto was in our tupic cutting outa jacket for Kooperneungs wife. The skins were of a kind ofseals called by the natives kus-se-gear, which has softer hair thansome other species, and visits salt and fresh water alike. Theseskins, being beautifully mottled and glossy, make fine-lookingdresses, and are much prized by the Innuits. Koomuk, wife ofToolookaah, both of Sekoselar, brought me a huge reindee
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