. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . LOADING THE FIRST MEKTINU WITH KSQUIMAUX. INTEUYIEW WITH METEK. 545 powerful and well-built, with swarthy complexion andpiercing black eyes. His dress was a hooded capoteor jumper of mixed white and blue fox-pelts, arrangedwith something of fancy, and booted trousers of whitebear-skin, which at the end of the foot were made toterminate with the claws of the animal. Although this was the first time he had ever seen awhi
. The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years . LOADING THE FIRST MEKTINU WITH KSQUIMAUX. INTEUYIEW WITH METEK. 545 powerful and well-built, with swarthy complexion andpiercing black eyes. His dress was a hooded capoteor jumper of mixed white and blue fox-pelts, arrangedwith something of fancy, and booted trousers of whitebear-skin, which at the end of the foot were made toterminate with the claws of the animal. Although this was the first time he had ever seen awhite man, he went with me fearlessly; his compan-ions staying behind on the ice. Hickey took themout what he esteemed our greatest delicacies,—slicesof good wheat bread, and corned pork, with exorbitantlumps of white sugar; but they refused to touch had evidently no apprehension of open violencefrom us. I found afterward that several among themwere singly a match for the white bear and the walrus,and that they thought us a very pale-faced crew. Being satisfied with my interview in the cabin, Isent out word th. i the rest might be admitted to theship ; and, although they, o
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