. Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 . Her skin was a dirty copper colour, her facewas broad, her brow very low, her eyes, nose, and mouth small,and her cheeks very red. She seemed very indolent, as well as herhusband; and, at one time, they were so unsuccessfid that we hadto relieve their wants to keep them from starving. Her mother,whose name was Ninuia Himna, but nicknamed by the sailors,Old Greedy, as well as herself, was u constant visitor to the ship, G 42 SKETCH OF THE BOO
. Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north-west passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829, 1830, 1831, 1832, 1833 . Her skin was a dirty copper colour, her facewas broad, her brow very low, her eyes, nose, and mouth small,and her cheeks very red. She seemed very indolent, as well as herhusband; and, at one time, they were so unsuccessfid that we hadto relieve their wants to keep them from starving. Her mother,whose name was Ninuia Himna, but nicknamed by the sailors,Old Greedy, as well as herself, was u constant visitor to the ship, G 42 SKETCH OF THE BOOTHIANS, and generally carried off something which she had picked one occasion, when coming up the ladder, she was tumbled offby the surgeon, and falling on her back, pretended to faint; fromwhich, although all the doctor could do could not recover her, shewas restored by the offer of an empty tin case, which had containedpreserved meat: a stratagem which she subsequently tried morethan once without success. She was about sixty years of age, fivefeet two inches high, extremely ill-looking, and decidedly the mostdisgusting of the whole ..?raji d , from -h^ .ri^i KAMA ^- OK E. J^rnlrd tf fn-M/ie ^Wri SKETCH OF THE BOOTHIANS. 43 KANAYOKE. Kanayoke came to the ship at Felix harbour, in the spring of1830; he had wintered at Pad I iak, and, having crossed the isth-mus, joined a party about six miles to the northward, one of whomguided him to us. It appeared that he was the father of Poyetta,by Kanguagiu, Alictus widow, now the wife of his brother,Poweytag. He was about sixty-five years of age, was five feeteight inches high, and remarkable for being darker in colourthan any of the rest. It appears that he lived to the westward,and had communication with a tribe in that direction where thefemales were most numerous; and when a wife was wanted for someof his own party, he transferred to him his own wife, and went foranother to himself, a friendly service which we und
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