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met "in- people returning at a slow pace, and Learned 

 that they had come unawares upon the Esquimaux 

 party, which consisted of bus hud, with their women 

 ami children, who were traveling towards the rapid 

 with a considerable number of irrying their 



The women hid themselves on the first 

 alarm, hut the men advanced, and stopping a* Bome 



■ iiiiv from our men, began to dance in a cirri.-. 



ing up their hands in tin' air. and accompanying 

 their motions with much shoutii ignify, I c 



ieir desire of peace. Our men saluted them 

 by pulling oil' their hats, and making hows, hut 

 neither party was willing t > approach the other ; and, 



length, the Esquimaux retired to the hill, from 

 whence they had descended when G We 



proceeded in tin? hope of gaining an interview with 

 tie m. hut lest our appearance in ;i body should alarm 

 them, we advanced in a long line, at. the head ot 

 which was Augustus. We were led to their 1 



which they had deserted, by the howling of th do 



and on the summit of the hid we found, lying beh 



a Btone, an old man, who was to < infirm to effect his 



ipe with the rest, lie was much d when 



rustus advance 1. and probably expected immediate 



death; hut that the fatal blow mi h oot be un - 



venged, he seized his Bpear, and madea thrust with it 



at his supposed em my. Augustus, howevi r. e; 



