SKETCH OF THE BOOTHIANS. 47 



NEWEETIOKE AND KONYAROKLIK. 



Neweetioke was brother to Ikmallik, and certainly the tallest 

 of the Boothians, being five feet ten inches high, but he had been 

 described to us much taller before he came to us the second year at 

 Sheriff's harbour ; but when he stood up beside Mr. Abernethy, 

 who was six feet two inches, he looked so much shorter that his 

 brother was quite astonished. He is dressed in a bear-skin jacket 

 with deer-skin sleeves, and his trousers were bear-skin. He had, 

 of course, been told all about us before he came, and his brother 

 having received a great many things, lie was led to expect the 

 same; he had, however, very little to give in exchange, and 

 consequently was disappointed, and when nothing else would do 

 he fell on an ingenious stratagem to obtain a piece of wood which 

 he had fixed his mind upon. Having consulted his companions, it 

 was agreed that they were to show us their method of killing seals, 

 accordingly one personated a seal lying on the ice, now and then 

 pretending to sleep, and sometimes holding up his head as if to 

 look around ; while the others, watching his motions, graduallj- 

 approach by creeping on their bellies, with a spear. Neweetioke, 

 while this farce was going on, and supposing that our attention 

 was entirely engrossed with it, slipped away, and having got the 

 piece of wood, placed it along his spear, and on each end put over 

 a boot, as if to carry them for the purpose of drying them by 



