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enough to be taken to our country. It will be seen 

 from the engraving, that one of the men had a differ- 

 ent cast of countenance from the rest ; we supposed 

 him to be descended from the Indians. 



It would appear that the walrus does not visit this 

 part of the coast, as none of these people recognized a 

 sketch of one, which Lieutenant Back drew ; but 

 they at once knew the seal and reindeer. We learned 

 hat the polar bear is seldom seen, and only in the 

 autumn ; and likewise that there are very few of the 

 brown bears, which we frequently saw on the coast 

 eastward of the Copper-Mine River. We had already 

 seen a few white whales, and we understood that they 

 would resort to this part of the coast in greater num- 

 bers with the following moon. 



The habits of these people were similar, in every 

 respect, to those of the tribes described by Captain 

 Parry, and their dialect differed so little from that 

 u i d by Augustus, that he had no difficulty in under- 

 standing them. He was, therefore, able to give them 

 mil particulars relative to the attack made by the 

 other party, and they expressed themselves much hurt 

 at their treacherous conduct. "Those are bad men," 

 they said, "and never fail either to quarrel with us, 

 ,1 from as, when we meet. They come, evory 

 . from the eastern side of the Mackenzie, i<> fish 

 at the place where you saw them, and return as soon 



