. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 164 KARLY NORTH-WEST VOTAOES. took the greatest delight in music; repeating an^ keeping time to any tune wth voice, head, hand, and , °ir "^^^^ daita, arrows, and other weapons were skilfully contrived, and used with a courage amount, mg even to desperation, of which repeated instances have been given. Their little boats of skin (kayak). were moved by one oar, with a
. Narrative of discovery and adventure in the polar seas and regions [microform] : with illustrations of their climate, geology, and natural history, and an account of the whale-fishery. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. 164 KARLY NORTH-WEST VOTAOES. took the greatest delight in music; repeating an^ keeping time to any tune wth voice, head, hand, and , °ir "^^^^ daita, arrows, and other weapons were skilfully contrived, and used with a courage amount, mg even to desperation, of which repeated instances have been given. Their little boats of skin (kayak). were moved by one oar, with a swiftness which no English sailor coidd match. Their astonishment at European objects appeared particularly when one of them was shown his visage in a mirror. " He was upon the sudden much amazed thereat, and, beholding advisedly the same with silence a good while, at length began to question with him as with his companion; and finding him dumb, seemed to suspect him as one disdainful, and would have grown into choler; until at last, by feeling and handling, he found the deceit, and then, with great noise and cries, ceased not wondering, thinking that we could make men live and die at our ; There were great signs of mutual attachment, especially between the male and female captive, who were brought home on the second voyage. She killed and dressed the dogs for him, and tended him carefully when S'.ck, Mfhile he picked out the sweetest and fattest moraels and laid them before her; yet they lived entirely as brother and sister -without the slightest impropriety. Our naval recoids do not inform us of the feelings excited ia ilie nation by tlie return from this hard, t'tiWHUHMWy'llillii.);)^. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Leslie, John, Sir, 1766-1832; Jameson, Robert, 1774-1
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