134 Dr King on the Industrial Arts of the Esquimaux. 



Sound, which represented in one part a hunter in pursuit of 

 a herd of deer, in a stooping posture on snow-shoes ; in an- 

 other his nearer approach to his game, and in the act of draw- 

 ing his bow ; in a third, the act of throwing his spear at a 

 seal, with an inflated skin as a decoy: the animal was placed 

 upon the ice, the man lying on his belly, with a harpoon ready 

 to strike it; in a fourth, the dragging a seal home upon a 

 small sledge, and several oomiaks busy in harpooning whales 

 which had been previously shot with aiTows ; and thus, by 

 comparing one with another, a complete insight into their 

 habits was elicited. On the eastern coast of Greenland, 

 Kanick, a painter of repute among his colleagues, orna- 

 mented the walls of his house with figures cut out of black 

 skins representing seals, walruses, bears, and Greenlanders, 

 " in which menagerie," says Captain Graah, of the Danish 

 Navy, who discovered them, " he soon recognised himself."* 

 Captain Parry informs us, that Toolemak, a native of Mel- 

 ville Peninsula, learned himself to draw very fairly, by copy- 

 ing prints ; and Ayokitt's productions were so curious and in- 

 genious, as " to determine Captain Lyon on treasuring them." 

 In the animals there was one striking peculiarity, which 

 consisted in having both eyes on the same side of the head. 

 Sacheuse, the interpreter of Sir John Koss's first expedition, 

 acquired the art to an extent which enabled him to make a 

 drawing of the first interview of the exploring party with the 

 natives of Regent Bay a highly ludicrous scene, which, from 

 its value, was engraved as an illustration to the Narrative of 

 that Expedition. Sir John Franklin's interpreter, Augustus, 

 was accustomed to spend whole days in looking over a collec- 

 lection of portraits, amongst which was one of the Duchess 

 of Kent, the mother of our Sovereign. The representation 

 so won his heart, that in the list of presents which he fur- 

 nished to be forwarded to him from England, was that of " a 

 wife like the Duchess of Kent.'' 



The art of carving is universally practised, — its state of 

 perfection keeping pace with our progress, and along their 

 migration from east to west. Carvings in imitation of the 



* Graah, 131. 



