42 JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



swallowmg knives, firing bullets through their 

 bodies, %c., but they are at these times generally 

 secluded from view, and the bystanders beUeve 

 their assertions, without requiring to be eye-wit- 

 nesses of the fact. Sixteen men and three women 

 amongst Augustus' tribe are acquainted with the 

 mysteries of the art. The skiU of the latter is 

 exerted only on their own sex. 



Upon the map being spread before Augustus, 

 he soon comprehended it, and recognised Ches- 

 terfield Inlet to be " the opening into which salt 

 water enters at spring tides, and which receives 

 a river at its upper end." He termed it Kan- 

 nceuck KkencEuck. He has never been farther 

 north himself than Marble Island, which he dis- 

 tinguishes as being the spot where the large ships 

 were wrecked, aUuding to the disastrous termina- 

 tionof Barlow and Knight's Voyage of Discovery*. 

 He says, however, that Esquimaux of three dif- 

 ferent tribes have traded with his countrymen, 

 and that they described themselves as having 

 come across land from a northern sea. One tribe 

 who named themselves Ahwhackmnhcktt, he sup- 

 poses may come from Repulse Bay; another, 

 designated Ootkoo^eek-kalin^ceoot^ or Stone-Ket- 

 tie Esqmmaux, reside more to the westward; 



to HBARNE'e Journeu, najre xxiv 



