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ment ; and when the animal jumped over the arms folded for 
the purpose, their admiration was expressed by slowly 
and forcibly inhaling their breath and quickly nodding their 
head.* A sailor, walking upon his hands along the deck of 
Lieut. Chappel’s vessel, in Hudson’s Straits, threw them into 
a violent fit of jumping and shouting ;+ and a mixture of 
mirth and admiration was excited by the effects of a winch, 
at which one man easily mastered and drew towards him ten 
or twelve others who held by a rope, using all their strength, 
and grinning with exertion and determination till con- 
quered.f 
The natives of Regent’s Bay shrunk back, as if in terror, 
from a pig whose pricked ears and ferocious aspect presented 
a somewhat formidable appearance. The animal happening 
to grunt, one of them was so terrified that he became from 
that moment uneasy, and appeared impatient to get away, 
and all the rest took to their heels in alarm at witnessing 
the exhibition of some juggler’s tricks.§ When the women 
of Winter Island were informed that the Kabloona ladies 
were not tattooed, they were astonished at their being so 
devoid of taste; but when told that they never wore breeches, a 
general cry was raised “‘ how cold they must be.”|| Ona royal 
salute being fired, three or four héy-yai’s (our “ dear me’’), 
were the sum-total of their remarks; and before the salute 
was ended, the whole party of Esquimaux, who were assem- 
bled for the purpose, became tired of it, although none of 
them had ever heard a great gun or seen a flag. Captain Lyon 
led an old woman to the side of a 24-pounder carronade, and 
entered into conversation with her, when he observed that 
at the explosion she did not even wink her eyes, but very 
earnestly continued a long story about a pair of boots for 
which some of his people had not contented her. 
From an anecdote, related by Captain Beechy, of the 
een See WOAS Hiw ov aOR Bik” Cercle 
* Lyon’s Private Journal, p. 145. 
+ Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson’s Bay, p. 66. 
} Lyon’s Private Journal, p. 140. 
§ Ross’s First Expedition. 
| Lyon’s Private Journal, p. 251. I Idem, p. 402. 
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