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and the third, the Kang-orr-mceoot, or White Goose 

 Esquimaux, describe themselves as coming from 

 a great distance, and mentioned that a party of 

 Indians had killed several of their tribe on the 

 summer preceding their visit. Upon comparing 

 the dates of this murder with that of the last mas- 

 sacre which the Copper Indians have perpetrated 

 on these harmless and defenceless people, they 

 appear to differ two years ; but the lapse of time 

 is so inaccurately recorded, that this difference in 

 their accounts is not sufficient to destroy their 

 identity ; besides, the Chipewyans, the only other 

 Indians who could possibly have committed the 

 deed, have long smce ceased to go to war. If 

 this massacre should be the one mentioned by the 

 Copper Indians, the Kang-orr-moeoot must reside 

 the mouth of the Anatessy, or River of 



The winter habitations of the Esquimaux, who 

 visit Churchill, are built of snow, and judging 

 from one constructed by Augustus to-day, they 

 are very comfortable dwellmgs. Having selected 

 a spot on the river, where the snow was about 

 two feet deep, and sufficiently compact, he com- 

 menced by tracing out a circle twelve feet in dia- 

 meter. The snow in the interior of the circle was 

 next divided with a broad knife, having a long 



