320 Dr King on the 
called out ookah, ookah (fire, fire), and demanded to be told 
what he was doing.* European clothing they conceived to be 
made out of the skins of animals ; and since they had none such 
in their country, they asked what sort of animals they were 
and where they were to be found.t| Not recognising them- 
selves in a looking-glass, the natives east of the Coppermine 
River, endeavoured to find the stranger by peeping round the 
corner of the glass.} At seeing Captain Ross and Lieutenant 
Parry drawn on sledges by their men, they laughed heartily ;§ 
a proof they had no knowledge of difference of rank. They 
doubtless took them for children of an older growth at play. 
Glass they took for ice,|| biscuit for the dried flesh of the musk- 
ox ;{ watches, and musical instruments, for living creatures ; a 
musical snuff-box being, in their opinion, the child of an hand- 
organ ;** a little terrier dog was looked upon with contempt by 
the natives of Regent's Bay, as being too small to draw a sledge; 
but had they known its intelligence, they would probably have 
been as desirous of obtaining it as the natives of Prince Williams 
Sound were a spaniel belonging to Captain Billings. That 
animal took a particular dislike to the natives, and being one 
day on shore tented with his master, he had an opportunity 
of displaying it. The cabin-boy had carelessly placed the tea- 
board, so that part of it with spoons, &c. were seen on the 
outside of the tent. One of the natives, perceiving this, ap- 
propriated the spoons to himself, which no one observed but the 
dog, who sprang up, leaped over those in the tent, seized the 
thief by the hand with the spoons in it, and held him fast 
till Captain Billings told him to let go; a circumstance which 
kept the whole community honest ever afterwards in the dog’s 
presence, jj} 
A little black cat, belonging to Captain Lyon, afforded the 
natives of Melville Peninsula an unceasing fund of amuse- 
* Dr Richardson’s narrative in Franklin’s Second Journey. 
+ Captain Ross’s First Expedition. 
t{ Kotzebue ; Franklin. § Ross’s first expedition. || Idem. 
@ Parry. ** Lyon’s Private Journal. 
++ Sauer’s Account of an Expedition into the North parts of Russia. 
