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smallest curiosity or interest in the operation, except by 

 desiring to have some spear-heads fashioned out by this 

 means." — p. 210. 



Her attention to her husband, who was taken ill, 

 was very striking. Having, together with him, been 

 three hours on a sledge, Mr. Bushnan, who was of 

 the party, told Parry that Iligliuk had scarcely 

 taken her eyes off her husband's face the whole 

 time, and seemed almost worn out with fatigue and 

 anxiety. Her husband took a dose of physic for the 

 first time in his life, and not without great dread ; 

 (i before he put the cup to his lips with one hand, 

 he held on by his wife with the other, and she by 

 him with both hers, as though they expected an 

 explosion. Iligliuk had one side of her hair loose, 

 and now loosened the other also, fancying Okotook 

 to be worse; for even in this sequestered corner 

 of the globe dishevelled locks bespeak mourning." 

 Hers, however, Parry says, was not the mere sem- 

 blance of grief, for she was really much distressed 

 throughout the day. 



It is pleasing to dwell on these amiable traits of 

 character in one whom the world at large would 

 set down, being an Esquimaux, as little removed, if 

 at all removed, from the ordinary race of savages ; 

 and it is only from such a man as Parry and his 

 associates that her virtues, and her unaccountable 

 strength and clearness of understanding, could have 

 been brought out and duly appreciated. Would 



