28 SKETCH OF THE BOOTHIANS. 



on acquaintins' us of his demise. He had four 'sons who all 

 paid him great attention, and he lived to see his great-grand- 

 chiklren. He left a widow about ten years younger than him- 

 self On examining his corpse a large but not deep incision 

 was found in the abdomen evidently made long after his death, 

 and probably to prove that he was really dead. The whole of 

 the party left the snow huts at North Hendon, where he died, on 

 the following day, leaving a small piece of wood on the top of the 

 hut, and, after the party had gone out of our reach, his remains 

 were interred by us to prevent its being devoured by foxes. Before 

 leaving Felix Harbour the surgeon procured the skull, which 

 T intended for the Phrenological Society, but which was one of the 

 many valuable specimens of natural history which was of necessity 

 left behind when we abandoned the ship at Victoria Harbour — his 

 eyes were black and very small ; his hair, of which I have preserved 

 a specimen, was grey approaching to white, when he died he was 

 corpulent, and seemed to have no disease but old age. 



Kanguagiu, his widow, was afterwards found in possession of 

 Poweytak, whose kindness to her, although helpless from infirmity 

 and old age, will appear hereafter. She was certainly above 

 sixty, about the middle size, and rather corpulent, her hair was 

 grey and her face much wrinkled as well as tatooed. She was 

 triply clothed in reindeer-skins, and was never seen out of the hut 

 within which she is represented to be sitting, excepting when the 

 family were removing to another station. 



