40 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



purpose of sending two of his iiunters to join this 

 party on its route. 



On comparing the language of our two Esqui- 

 maux with a copy of St. John's Gospel, printed 

 for the use of the Moravian Missionary Settle- 

 ments on the Labrador coast, it appeared that the 

 Esquimaux who resort to ChurchiU speak a lan- 

 guage essentially the same with those who fre- 

 quent the Labrador coast. The Red Knives, too, 

 recogmse the expression T^yma, used by the 

 l^sqmmaux when they accost strangers in a friend- 

 ITr^"'' f J^'^^^^'^y pronounced by Augustus, 

 and those of his race who frequent the mouth of 

 the Copper-Mine River. 



Imt^fh f . ' *' "^ "l"''^ *■= ^h--. they 



obtein fit -"^"^ "'" "''= '^''' ^here they 

 ~ fish, remKleer, aad musk-oxen. 





"t to 'o!ll\""^'''' °' marriod'ILopk may 

 't to one hundred and seventy He could 

 &-.<= .ue no certain data wh,.r,.h> I u 

 the uunibcr of children ^ ""'^'" '^■*'"^^ 



