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tempt to join Commander Back, as will be seen in 

 the following chapter. 



On hearing that Captain Back was in the 

 interior, proceeding towards the sea-coast, poor 

 Augustus set out on foot in company with two 

 others from Hudson's Bay, to join him ; they 

 parted, and for a long time nothing was heard 

 of him, but a note from one of the Company's 

 servants said, " I apprehend that poor Augustus 

 has been starved to death." * Such was the miser- 

 able end of poor Augustus — " a faithful, disinter- 

 ested, kind-hearted creature, who had won the re- 

 gard of all." 



Sackhouse was also a most amiable and intelli- 

 gent young man, who died peaceably among the 

 friends he had acquired in Scotland, and of whom 

 there is an interesting biographical memoir in 

 Blackwood's Magazine, supposed to have been 

 written by the late Captain Basil Hall. Brought 

 to Leith in a whaling-ship, the owners, pleased 

 with his manners, paid him every attention, had 

 him taught a little English, and sent him back 

 the following season, to remain or not, according 

 to his own desire. His sister had died in his 

 absence, and having no other relation living, he 

 determined to abandon his country and to return. 

 On arriving at Leith he was met by Mr. Nasmyth, 

 the artist, who finding he had a taste for drawing, 



* See Back's account of the fate of this excellent man. 



