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musical cravings, for her whole soul appears to have 

 been music, but more by her untaught intellectual 

 powers. In her exhibition of the former quality, on 

 various occasions, she is chargeable only with one of 

 the two vices which Horace brings against the whole 

 tribe of singers in his clay — omnibus cantoribus — so 

 far from requiring to be coaxed, she was always 

 most ready to sing ; but Parry says, " there was 

 scarcely any stopping her when she had once be- 

 gun." A party of her countrywomen were one 

 day on board, when, to amuse them, the little band 

 of flutes and violins was struck up, and also some 

 songs, with which they were all delighted. " I 

 feared," Parry says, " that some of them, especially 

 Iligliuk, would have gone into fits with rapture, 

 when we introduced into our song some of their 

 names mingled with our own." It was enough, we 

 are told, for this interesting creature just to make 

 the motion of turning the handle of the organ, 

 which, conveying to her mind the idea of music, 

 was always sure to put her immediately into high 

 spirits. 



A trait of the superior character and proud feel- 

 ino- of this remarkable female manifested itself 

 at an early period, which, among many others, 

 appears to be quite sufficient to prove that such 

 persons as Iligliuk, her son Toolooak, and John 

 Sackhouse, require but a moderate degree of edu- 

 cation to give them a due place in civilized society. 

 Parry says, — 



