. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. OF THE POLAR SEA. 225 ever, we promised to return on discovering the first change in the season. He was also told that all the baggage being left behind, our canoes, would now, of course, travel infinitely more expeditiously than any thing he had hitherto witnessed. Akaitcho appeared to feel hurt, that we should continue to press the matter further, and answered with some warmth: " Well, I have said every thing I can urge, to dissuade y
. Narrative of a journey to the shores of the Polar Sea, in the years 1819, 20, 21, and 22 [microform]. Scientific expeditions; Expéditions scientifiques. OF THE POLAR SEA. 225 ever, we promised to return on discovering the first change in the season. He was also told that all the baggage being left behind, our canoes, would now, of course, travel infinitely more expeditiously than any thing he had hitherto witnessed. Akaitcho appeared to feel hurt, that we should continue to press the matter further, and answered with some warmth: " Well, I have said every thing I can urge, to dissuade you from going on this service, on which, it seems, you wish to sacrifice your own hves, as well as the Indians who might attend you: however, if after all I have said, you are deter- mined to go, some of my young men shall join the party, because it shall not be said, th t we permitted you to dit; alone after having brought you hither; but from the moment they embark in the canoes, I and my relatives shall lament them as ; We could only reply to this forcible appeal, by assuring him and the Indians who were seated around him, that we felt the most anxious soUcitude for the safety of every individual, and that it was far from our intention to proceed without considering every argu- ment for and against the proposed journey. We next informed him, that it would be very desirable to see the river at any rate, that we might give some positive information about its situation and size, in our next letters to the great Chief; and that we were very anxious to get on its banks, for the purpose of observing an ecHpse of the sun, which we described to him, and said would happen in a few days. He received this communication with more temper than the preceding, though he immediately as- signed as a reason for his decUning to go, that " the Indians must now procure a sufficient quantity of d'^er-skins for winter clothing for themselves, and dresses for the Canadians, who would
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