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THE WORLD 8 WONDERS. 



DR. HAYES' EXPERIENCES WITH THE ESQUIMAUX. 

 DR. ISAAC I. HAYES, surgeon of the Griimell Expedition under 

 Dr. Kane, has given us some excellent pen-portraitures of the 

 Esquimaux, about whom he seemed never to tire of writing, be- 

 cause he found them to be such an uncommonly interesting people. 

 He' describes a meeting with an Angekok (sorcerer or doctor) 

 and several Esquimaux a few miles above Cape Parry. When 

 they perceived the approach of the white men, every one set up 

 a howl of " Kabulenet! Oomedk!" " White men and ships I" 



THE ESQUIMAUX RUNNING TO MEET DR. HAYES. 



and they all rushed down upon the ice-foot, gesticulating in the 

 wildest manner, to meet them. The old sorcerer was most con- 

 spicuous jn his cries and friendly exclamations, until Hayes was 

 induced to row ashore and take the man of magic into the boat. 

 This courtesy was acknowledged by the Angekok crying out in 

 his childish pride to his less fortunate people, " Tek-kona! tek- 

 kona!" Look at me !" " look at me !" 

 . Says Hayes: "The bay was covered with pancake-ice, which 

 greatly retarded our progress ; and it was nightfall when we 



