. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. OtH r FKOISISUEES GOLD u PEOOF8. 43S ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. Delighted with my discoveries, and gathering up as many relicsas I could carry, placing them in my old stockings, mittens, FEOB16UEP. RELICS LN MY OLD STOCKINGS. and every thing that would hold them securely, I labeled eacharticle, and rejoined the boat, immediately afterward departing onour way for home. That the reader may know the feelingswith which I left this portion of my work, I here make a brief ex-tract from my diary, hastily written on the spot: As I had my hand
. Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux;. OtH r FKOISISUEES GOLD u PEOOF8. 43S ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. Delighted with my discoveries, and gathering up as many relicsas I could carry, placing them in my old stockings, mittens, FEOB16UEP. RELICS LN MY OLD STOCKINGS. and every thing that would hold them securely, I labeled eacharticle, and rejoined the boat, immediately afterward departing onour way for home. That the reader may know the feelingswith which I left this portion of my work, I here make a brief ex-tract from my diary, hastily written on the spot: As I had my hand upon the iron relic after having unearth-ed it and seen what it was, like a flash the whole of the circum-stances flew across my mind—my determination before starting toinduce my native crew to stop with me at Kodlunarn; the propo-sal while making the transit from Niountelik to Kodlunarn; theirwilling acceptance; the search, and finding of interesting relics:my calling to Koojesse; his response; his descending to look atwhat I thought to be wood; its proving to be a stone; Koojessesmounting by an unexpected and venturesome way, thus findingthe iron relic where it had lain undisturbed for three centuries;God blessing me in making me the
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