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family, we scattered over the settlement and had great 

 sport with the natives, who followed us about with the 

 keenest interest, and were particularly desirous of securing 

 tobacco. It was not long before the commercial spirit dis- 

 played itself on both sides, and many of our party went back 

 to the ship to gather material for trading which they had 

 brought with them. They returned bearing bags of every 

 description filled with knicknacks and old clothes. The 

 place looked as if it were being overrun with Hebrew 

 pedlars, and the scene was comical in the extreme. Some 

 stood upon rocks, surrounded by an excited crowd of 

 Eskimo, and peddled their goods to the highest bidder, 

 the Eskimo giving in exchange fur garments, kamics, and 



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all sorts of apparel of Eskimo manufacture, besides dolls 

 dressed in Eskimo furs and little model kayaks. Others 

 of our party made a regular house to house, igloo to igloo, 

 canvass, and had great times dickering with the residents 



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