22 PHILOSOPHICAL TKANSACTIONS. [aNNO 1770. 



in that Country; mid of the Voyage back to England; in 17 68 and 17 69. 



By IVm. Wales, p. 100. 



It must be observed, that the astronomical, and not the nautical day, is every 

 where to be understood in the following Journal. 



This sea-journal is now very uninteresting. The party sailed from the river 

 May 31, 1768; and July 23 arrived at the island of Resolution, which forms 

 the north-shore at the entrance of Hudson's Straits, where the variation of the 

 needle was found 39° 48' west. 



One day as Mr. W. was observing the sun's meridional altitude, there came 

 along side 3 Eskimaux in their canoes, or, as they term them, Kiacks, but who 

 had very little to trade, except toys. None of these had along with them any 

 weapon, except a kind of dart, evidently constructed for sea purposes, as it had 

 a buoy fixed to it, made of a large bladder blown up. The men had on their 

 legs a pair of boots, made of seal-skin, and soled with that of a sea-horse ; these 

 came barely up to their knees ; and above these they had breeches made of seal, 

 or deer-skin, much in the form of our seamen's short trowsers. The remaining 

 part of their cloathing was in one piece, much in the form of an English shift ; 

 only coming just below the waist-band of their breeches, and had a hood which 

 serves instead of a cap. Over these they wore a kind oi foul-weather jacket, 

 made of the same leather with the legs of their boots, and fastened tightly about 

 their necks and wrists ; and when they are in their kiacks, are likewise fastened 

 m such a manner round the circuit" 'lole which aditiits the man's body, that not 

 the least drop of water ca" get into it, either from rain or the spray of the sea. ' 

 The dress of the ^"jmen ditfered not from that of the men, excepting that they 

 had long toils to their waistcoats behind, which reached down to their heels ; 

 apd their boots came up to their hips, which are there very wide, and made to 

 stand off from their hips with a strong bow of whalebone, for the convenience 

 of putting their children in. He saw one woman with a child in each boot top. 



As to their persons, they seem to be low ; but pretty broad built, and in- 

 clined to be fat : their hands remarkably small ; their faces very broad and flat ; 

 very little mouths, and their lips not remarkably thick ; their noses small, and 

 inclined to what is generally termed bottled ; their eyes are black as jet, and their 

 eye-lids so encumbered with f-it, that they seem as if they opened them with 

 difficulty ; their hair is black, long, and straight ; and though they seem encum- 

 bered with a superfluity of flesh, they are remarkably brisk and active ; more 

 especially in the management of their kiacks, which exceeds every thing of the 

 kind that he ever saw. All he can say with regard to their disposition is, that 

 if they really deserve the character which authors have given of them, they are 

 the most complete hypocrites that nature ever formed. Mr. W, then observes 



