SKETCH OF THE BOOTHIANS. OO 



AJOUA, AUOWAHRIU, AND NAQUASSIAK. 



Ajoua was an old woman, the mother of Tullualiiu and Auo- 

 wahriu, who was very much bent, and could not walk without the 

 aid of a staff; she was very covetous, and asked for almost every 

 thing she saw ; at length I proposed that she should carry off the 

 ship on her back, which had the appearance of being bent for re- 

 ceiving a burden, at which her sons were much amused ; <ve 

 received, however, from her a curious piece of wood which had 

 been given to her by Cablala, and would have been a passport if 

 we had succeeded in getting to the westward. This curiosity 1 

 have still in my possession : of course she was well rewarded for 

 it ; but she always put us in mind that her parting with it was a 

 great favour. Auowahriu was her second son, and was also a 

 cripple from accident; he had been a very powerful man and an 

 excellent hunter, and was remarkable for the nice order in which 

 he kept his spears, bows, and arrows. He was very dexterous 

 at killing salmon, and in the management of a canoe; we met 

 with him for the last time at the salmon fishery, at the mouth of 

 Lindsay river. He had three children who had lost their mother. 

 Naquassiak, the eldest, was about sixteen years of age, very tall 

 and thin, but not very active ; when he went to show Connnander 

 Ross the way to Shagavoke, he was detected in telling a falsehood, 

 and thereby obtained the nickname of Shaglo, which signifies a 



