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30 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 
however, useful vessels, being capable of contain- 
ing twenty persons with their luggage. An el- 
derly man officiates as steersman, and the women 
paddle, but they have also a mast which carries 
a sail, made of dressed whale-gut, - iv 
When the women had disposed of all their ar- 
ticles of trade they resorted to entreaty ; and the 
putting in practice of many enticing gestures was 
managed with so much address, as to procure 
them presents of a variety of beads, needles, and 
other articles in great demand among females. 
It is probable these Esquimaux go from this 
Te to some part of Labrador to pass the win- 
ter, as parties of them have been frequently seen 
by the homeward-bound Hudson’s Bay ships in 
the act of erc ing the Strait, “ 
_*Hey appear to speak the same language as 
the tribe of Esquimaux, who Teside near to the 
Moravian Settlements in Labrador: for we per: 
celved they used several of the words which had 
een giventous by the Missionaries at Stromness. 
and would, doubtless, soon reach the shore though 
it was distant ten or twelve miles. 
