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place during the confinement of the ships. Among 

 the visitors from Amitioke was that distinguished 

 youth Toolooak, the son of Iligliuk, who is repeat- 

 edly mentioned and commended. " I counted to- 

 day," says Parry, "on a girdle worn round the 

 waist by Toolooak's mother, twenty-nine deer's ears, 

 procured by this young man's own exertions — a 

 girdle which she constantly wears as a proud trophy 

 of her son's exploits ; and," he adds, " there are few 

 mothers indeed who might not be proud of such a 

 son as Toolooak, who, on longer acquaintance, quite 

 maintained his former character, of possessing many 

 excellent qualities both of head and heart." Poor 

 Iligliuk ! a name appearing to be no longer remem- 

 bered but as Toolooak's mother; but Parry no doubt 

 meant to say that Toolooak wore the girdle, " which 

 was worn {usually) round the waist of his mother." 

 But enough for the present of the Esquimaux. 



The appearance of scurvy in some slight but un- 

 equivocal symptoms could scarcely be a subject of 

 wonder, considering the length of time the ships' 

 crews had no other dependence than upon their 

 own resources, unassisted as they had been by any 

 supply of fresh anti-scorbutic plants or other vege- 

 tables, a case unparalleled in the annals of naviga- 

 tion. The month of August had commenced when, 

 as Parry observes, " incredible as it may appear, the 

 ships were as securely confined in the ice as in the 

 middle of winter, except that a pool of water about 



