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The natives in their kajaks at once crowded round the 

 ship ; fastening their frail canoes together with pieces of 

 seal line, numbers of them came on board, and showed, by 

 hauling on the hawsers, ropes, &c., that they would will- 

 ingly do us a kindness. When the deck was cleared, and 

 all the ropes coiled down, an immediate barter was set 

 up between the sailors and the natives ; seal-skin boots, 



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trousers, and jumpers soon changed hands, and many an 

 old jacket, &c., went on shore. The greatest demand 

 among the young ladies was for silk handkerchiefs, which 

 they used as head bandages, and their triumph was con- 

 siderable when one of them became the happy possessor 

 of so rare and prized an article ; as there were but few 



