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ing her short stay. The men 
were best pleased with sporting; 
the exquisite nose of the hound, 
who could follow an animal by the 
scent, over an open country or 
through a thick wood, almost as 
swiftly as he could have done had 
the creature been in view, the saga- 
city and steadiness of the pointer, 
and the speed of the greyhound, 
were matters of great astonishment 
to them. But, above all, they were 
most struck with the strength, 
beauty, and utility of that piece of 
perfeetion in the brute creation, 
that noble animal, the horse. 
“The face of the country did not 
pass unobserved by them ; and their 
expression was * The land is all 
made ;” for they supposed that we 
had cut down the woods, and le- 
velled the hills. In the former 
supposition they were certainly 
right; and Ido not wonder at the 
latter, since they would naturally 
suppose that all the world was like 
the small part of it, which they had 
formerly seen ; and which is almost 
an entire collection of bills covered 
with thick woods. As they had 
néver before seen any cultivated 
land (except a few small gardens, 
which they observed were dug 
with a spade) they formed an idea 
of our immense numbers, by being 
able to till so much land and con- 
sume the produce of it ina year, 
exclusive of the animal food with 
which they saw our tables and mar- 
kets abounded. How the inha- 
bitants of London were supplied 
with food, I could never make 
them fully comprehend, any more 
than I could the number of people 
by which the metropolis was inha- 
bited. Their arithmetic goes no 
higher than the number twenty- 
one; therefore, the best I could 
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do, was to tell them, that a cer- 
tain number of large whales would 
serve them for one meal only. 
Nothing surprised them more than 
to meet with a man who assured 
them he could not shoot, had never 
killed an animal, nor seen the sea 
in his life. 
** After my return to town, by his 
Majesty's permission, I took them 
to court; where their dresses and 
behaviour made them greatly taken 
notice of. They were also at the 
houses of several of the nobility 
and people of fashion; and I omit- 
ted nothing which came within the 
compass of my pocket, to make 
their stay in England agreeable, or 
to impress them with ideas of our 
riches and strength. The latter I 
thought highly necessary, as they 
had often, when in Labrador, spo- 
ken of our numbers with great con- 
tempt; and told me they were so 
numerous, that they could cut off 
all the English with great ease, if 
they thought proper to collect 
themselves together; an opinion 
which could not fail to produce 
in me very unpleasant reflections. 
But they had not been long in Lon- 
don before they confessed to me, 
that the Esquimaux were but as 
one, compared to that of the Eng- 
lish.” 
Having obtained the necessary 
pecuniary assistance from his father, 
Mr. Cartwright fitted out a ship to 
trade in America, on his own ac- 
count, and was preparing to sail, 
when he discovered one of the In- 
dians to be infected with the small 
pox; which, notwithstanding all 
possible medical skill and attention, 
spread to the rest ; and only one of 
the six (Caubvick) survived to tell 
the melancholy tale to her country- 
men; who received it with the 
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