386 ESQUIMAUX INFORMATION AS TO THE COAST. 



the Indian daggers disposed of at the Company's 

 posts throughout the country. 



They knew nothing of any ship having been 

 in Regent's Inlet ; but after I had sketched the 

 river near them, one of the most intelligent 

 took the pencil, and at my request drew the 

 coast line from its mouth, which, he said, we 

 would reach on the following day; and after 

 prolonging it thence a little to the northward, 

 made an extraordinary bend to the southward. 

 On my asking if it were indeed so far south, 

 he took me to the highest rock, from which a 

 range of distant mountains was visible to the 

 east ; and first extending his arm towards the 

 sea, nearly north, he drew his body backward in 

 a curved attitude, projecting his hand so as to inti- 

 mate the trending of the land in that direction. 

 Continuing then to make a curve with his hand 

 from west to east, he turned slowly round, repeating 

 very quick, " Tarreoke, tarreoke,"— the sea, the 

 sea ; and having got to a bearing about E.S. £., 

 he suddenly stopped, accompanying the action 

 with the observation of "Tarreoke naga," &c. ; 

 importing that in that direction there was no 

 sea, but plenty of musk oxen. He was also ac- 

 quainted with Akkoolee, which my readers will 

 perhaps recollect as having been named to Sir 

 E. Parry by the Esquimaux in Hecla and Fury 

 Strait, and intimated by a repetition of the same 



