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observed before ; for besides disposing of their gar- 

 ments, which they never hesitated to do, more than 

 one actually offered to barter their children for a 

 few needles." A young woman, observing that one 

 of the officers had not much hair on his head, offered 

 to supply him with her own at the price of a curtain- 

 ring. These are the same Hudson's Strait Esqui- 

 maux which Lyon describes, and from whom he ob- 

 tained carved figures of a dog and a bear ; and it is 

 remarkable enough to find Baffin, in the year 1615, 

 recording that, near the Savage Islands — "Among 

 the tents I found a little bagge, in which was a com- 

 pany of little images of men ; one the image of a 

 woman with a child at her backe, all the which I 

 brought away." * 



On the 14th of August they fell in with Notting- 

 ham Island, which is close by Salisbury Island, the 

 place where Back's instructions pointed out the two 

 routes for his choice ; and unluckily, as has been 

 said, he pitched upon that which was to lead him 

 " with ease " through the Frozen Strait. Their 

 course was now north-west ; and they proceeded 

 without much difficulty past the Trinity Islands, and 

 beyond them as far north as lat. 65° 25', and opposite 

 to, but some distance from, the opening of Frozen 

 Strait. The ship was forced towards it through 

 floes of ice, " boring" as they went along, their object 



* Barrow's Chronological History of Arctic Voyages. 



