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Our North Land. 



" He says most likely they does." 



" Do they not know that it is wrong to have more than one 

 wife ? " 



" He says most likely he won't go on." 



" What does he mean ? " 



" Most likely he is sulky and won't answer." 



" Have the natives here ever seen a vessel before ? " 



" He says only one of them has." 

 " He says most likely he won't 

 tell you anything else." 



During the day a number of us 

 made an excursion in one of the 

 Neptune's boats, about three miles 

 along the coast, on the north side 

 of Prince of Wales Sound, and going 

 on shore we walked about two miles 

 when we found several Eskimos in 

 tents, made of skins, all, as usual, 

 dirty and filthy. In our wanderings 

 among the hills and rocks we came 

 to a little inlet, a narrow arm of 

 the Sound extending in among the 

 rocks, entirely hid from view until 

 the traveller approaches the water's 

 edge. There were natives residing 

 on both sides of the cove. It was 

 evident that something unusual 

 was going on. An old chief, with 

 his great red cap, stood upon a cliff 

 near his tent on one side, while, upon 

 the waters of the lake-like inlet, a 

 boat and half a dozen kayaks filled 

 with huskies were apparently enjoying a holiday. Upon making 

 enquiries, I found that the chief's only child and daughter, a native 

 beauty, had just given her hand in marriage to a young Eskimo. 

 The event was much out of the order of marriages, as the newly- 



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