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than mine, nor to make house and trade with 

 them, but to enquire, and they must speak true, 

 if they would like white man to make house and 

 live amongst them, to teach their children white 

 man s knowledge, and of the great and good 

 Spirit Who made the world. The sun was then 

 shining in his glory, and the scenery in the full 

 tide of the water before us was striking and 

 beautiful; when I asked them if they knew who 

 made the heavens, the waters, and the earth, 

 and all things that surrounded us, so pleasing to 

 our sight? their reply was, We do not know 

 whether the Person Who made these things is dead 

 or alive. On assuring them that I knew, and 

 that it was my real wish that they and their 

 children should know also the Divine Being, 

 Who was the Creator of all things ; and on repeat 

 ing the question, whether they wished that white 

 man should come and give them this knowledge, 

 they all simultaneously expressed a great desire 

 that he should, laughing and shouting, heigh! 

 heigh ! heigh ! augh ! augh ! One of them after 

 wards gave me a map of the coast which they 

 traversed, including Chesterfield Inlet, and which 

 he drew with a pencil that I lent him with great 

 accuracy, pointing out to me the particular rivers 

 where the women speared salmon in the rapids 

 in summer, while the men were employed in killing 

 the deer, as they crossed in the water some points 

 of the Inlet; or were hunting on the coast, catch 

 ing seals.&quot; 



&quot;It is said,&quot; Mr. West adds, &quot;that the word, 



