. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. secrated and, in civilized regions, veracious assur-ance :— AVe, the high contracting parties, pledge ourselvesnow and forever brothers and friends. This treaty—which, though I have spoken of itjocosely, was really an affair of much interest to us—was ratified, svitli Hans and Morton as my accreditedrepresentatives, by a full assembly of the people atEtah. All our future intercourse was conducted underit. It was not solemnized by an oath; but it wasnever broken. We went to and fro between thev
. Arctic explorations: the second Grinnell expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55. secrated and, in civilized regions, veracious assur-ance :— AVe, the high contracting parties, pledge ourselvesnow and forever brothers and friends. This treaty—which, though I have spoken of itjocosely, was really an affair of much interest to us—was ratified, svitli Hans and Morton as my accreditedrepresentatives, by a full assembly of the people atEtah. All our future intercourse was conducted underit. It was not solemnized by an oath; but it wasnever broken. We went to and fro between thevillages and the brig, paid our visits of courtesy andnecessity on both sides, met each other in huntingparties on the floe and the ice-foot, organized a general Vol. I.—24 370 MY BROTHER. community of interests, and really, I believe, esta-blished some personal attachments deserving of thename. As long as we remained prisoners of the ice,we were indebted to them for invaluable counsel inrelation to our hunting expeditions; and in the jointhunt we shared alike, according to their own HANGING GLACIER. Our dogs were in one sense common property; andoften have they robbed themselves to oifer suppliesof food to our starving teams. They gave us sup-plies of meat at critical periods: we were able to doas much for them. They learned to look on us onlyas benefactors; and, I know, mourned our departurebitterly. The greeting which they gave my brotherJohn, when he came out after me to Etah with the RETURN FROM A HUNT. 371 Rescue Expedition, should be of itself enough to sa-tisfy me of this. I should be glad to borrow from hisingenuous narrative the story of his meeting mthMyouk and Metek and Ootuniah, and of the almostaffectionate confidence with which the maimed andsick invited his professional succor, as the representa-tive of the elder Docto Kayen. September 16, Saturday.—Back last night from awalrus-hunt. I brought in the spoil Avith my dogs,leaving Hans and Ohlsen to
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