Ch. XL FRANKLIN & RICHARDSON'S SECOND JOURNEY. 453 



kindly offered his instructions. On the recom- 

 mendation of Captain Hall he was engaged as in- 

 terpreter on the first Arctic voyage, and proved so 

 useful that he was appointed for the second vo} r - 

 age. In the meantime he visited his kind friends 

 in Edinburgh. In pursuit of his studies, and in 

 the midst of happiness, he was seized with an in- 

 flammatory complaint, which carried him off in 

 a few days. 



He is described as possessing a pleasing sim- 

 plicity of maimers, a countenance expressive of good 

 humour, to have been fond of society, and always 

 desirous of learning something. His kindness to 

 children was very striking ; two of these he fell in 

 with on a snowy day at some distance from Leith, 

 shivering with cold. Sackhouse took off his jacket, 

 and carefully wrapping them in it, brought them 

 safely home. When sensible of his approaching 

 end, he thanked his friends around him for all their 

 kindness, but said it was of no avail, for his sister 

 had appeared to him and called him away. 



The writer says he was unaffectedly pious, and 

 when death was approaching he held in his hand 

 an Icelandic Catechism till his strength and sight 

 failed him, when the book dropped from his grasp, 

 and he shortly afterwards expired. 



But if any doubt could be entertained as to the 

 superiority of the Esquimaux over all other races 

 of people whom we are pleased to call savages, let 



