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1824. departure, conducted themselves so as to shew 

 August, us how grateful they were for our presents to 

 them. 



From their total want of iron, and from their 

 extreme poverty, I am led to imagine that these 

 people had never before seen Europeans ; al- 

 though it is not improbable they may have ob- 

 served the Hudson's Bay ships pass at a distance 

 in the offing, on some occasions, when they 

 may have been driven by bad weather a 

 little out of their annual course. The good 

 behaviour of these poor savages was therefore 

 quite natural to them, and the fearless con- 

 fidence which led Neeakoodloo to put him- 

 self into our power, is the strongest proof of 

 their ignorance of guile or treachery. 



We obtained the latitude 62° 29' 50" n., and 

 longitude, by afternoon sights, 82° 48' 45" w., 

 but were not able to ascertain the rise and 

 fall of the tide, owing to the unfavourable na- 

 ture of the beach, which ran out for nearly a 

 mile into flat shingly shoals, between which 

 were lakes at low water, thickly filled with 

 tangle and other sea-weed, from whence pro- 

 ceeded a most noisome smell. A few muscle- 

 shells were picked up amongst this, but none 

 of the fish in a live state. 



Having reached the ship at one P.M., we 



