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vision and fuel we might expect to get on our 

 voyage, he informed us that the rein-deer frequent 

 the coast during summer, the fish are plentiful at 

 the mouths of the rivers, the seals are abundant, 

 but there are no sea-horses nor whales, although 

 he remembered one of the latter, which had been 

 killed by some distant tribe, having been driven 

 on shore on his part of the coast by a gale of 

 wind. That musk oxen were to be found a little 

 distance up the rivers, and that we should get 

 drift wood along the shore. He had no know- 

 ledge of the coast to the eastward beyond the 

 next river, which he called Nappa-arktok-towock, or 

 Tree River. The old man, contrary to the Indian 

 practice, asked each of our names ; and, in reply 

 to a similar question on our part, said his name 

 was Terregannoeuck, or the White Fox; and that 

 his tribe denominated themselves Nagge-ook-tor- 

 moeoot, or Deer Horn Esquimaux. They usually 

 frequent the Bloody FaU during this and the fol- 

 lowmg moons, for the purpose of salting salmon, 

 and then retire to a river which flows into the sea, 

 a short way to the westward, (since denominated 

 Richardson's River,) and pass the winter in 

 snow-houses. 



Afterthis conversation Terregannoeuck proposed 

 going down to his baggage, and we then per- 

 ceived he was too infirm to walk without the 



