CHAPTER VI. 



Friends. — Presents. — Tuski Preferences. — A La-loop. — The Tuski Dandy. 

 — A State Visit. — Curious Dances. — The Oldest Inhabitant. — The 

 Dead. — New Ideas. — Wootau*. — Appeai'ance of the Country. — A 

 Chiefs Yarang.— The Sea. 



Such an unexpected influx of distinguished visitors 

 obliged us to use exertion for their entertainment 

 and reception. The sledges were carefully disposed 

 upon the roof and ice-plank, and the dogs secm^ed in 

 their respective bands, on the forecastle or round the 

 ship ; the reindeer could not very well be brought on 

 board, and moreover required their suppers, which 

 our store of blubber and half-putrid walrus flesh, 

 kept for our dogs, and now borrowed from to feed 

 those of our guests, would not serve to supply ; they 

 were therefore driven off for the night to one of the 

 neighbouring valleys, where moss abounded. My 

 acquaintance with Mooldooyah and his family had by 

 this time, by mutual liking, warmed into a sincere 

 and dm-able friendship. I had early been impressed 

 with a favourable opinion of their kind and generous 



