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affirmative, when I to-day plainly put the question to him, 

 whether he would go with me to Kabloona Noona (European 

 country)? Never was a more decisive negative given, than 

 Toolooak gave to this proposal. He eagerly repeated the 

 word, Na-o (No), half a dozen times, and then told me that 

 if he went away his father would cry. This simple but 

 irresistible appeal to paternal affection, his decisive manner 

 of making it, and the feelings by which his reply was evi- 

 dently dictated, were just what could have been wished. 

 No more could be necessary to convince those who witnessed 

 it that these people may justly lay equal claim, with our- 

 selves, to these common feelings of our nature ; and having 

 once satisfied myself of this, I determined never again to 

 excite in Toolooak's mind another disagreeable sensation, by 

 talking to him on this subject." — pp. 173, 174. 



On an early visit to the huts, which was made 

 by Parry, he found only women and children, the 

 men having gone on a sealing excursion ; one of 

 the former, named Iligliuk, the mother of the lad 

 Toolooak, favoured him with a song, which, he 

 says, gave proofs of her " having a remarkably 

 soft voice, an excellent ear, and a great fondness for 

 singing. We had, on their first visit to the ships, 

 remarked this trait in Iligliuk's disposition, when 

 she was listening, for the first time, to the sound of 

 the organ, of which she seemed never to have enough ; 

 and almost every day she now began to display some 

 symptom of that superiority of understanding, for 

 which she was so remarkably distinguished." 



This Esquimaux female was indeed a most extra- 

 ordinary creature, and one that would have distin- 

 guished herself in any society, not merely by her 



