Identifier: Journalsecondvo00Parr (find matches)
Title: Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates
Year: 1824 (1820s)
Authors: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795-1832, ill Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857, engraver Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, dedicatee
Subjects: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Fury (Ship) Hecla (Ship) Natural history Eskimos Inuit
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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r which were stowed such articles asthey were least willing or able to dispose of. They sold however a greatnumber of their things without reluctance; and it was indeed astonishing tosee with what eagerness they would, for the mere sake of change and variety,barter some of their most indispensable articles for the veriest trifles in ourpossession. For instance, a single sewing-needle, of which they possessedabundance not much inferior to our own, procured from them a large well-sharpened pctima*-, or mans knife made of stout iron, for which in point ofabsolute utility a hundred needles would not have been a fair equivalent.Various other instances of the same kind occurred by which indeed they werenot ultimately losers, though they certainly would have been so had our inter-course ended here. * For an explanation of the mode of accenting the Esquimaux words used in the course ofthis Journal, I must refer to the remarks immediately preceding the vocabulary at the end ofthe last chapter.
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OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 163 We dined in the huts, and the Esquimaux gladly partook of our biscuit and p1,822,meat, and even of a little wine which however they did not relish. We v^-v/returned on board about sunset, much gratified with the interesting day wehad passed; having laid the foundation of that perfect confidence andgood understanding which, with little or no interruption, afterwards subsistedbetween us and our new acquaintance. On the morning of the 3d, a number of these people were observed to set Sun- 3.off over the ice to the south-west to bring, as we conjectured, either some moreof their people or of their property from their last place of abode. On walk-ing out to the huts after divine service, however, we found they had beenseal-catching and had succeeded in taking four. The very small quantityof food which they had in their huts at first coming, consisting of a little veni-son and the flesh and blubber of the whale and seal, induced us to supposethey had left some o

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