it liquid. This great fondness toi' plenty of eulil water has heen oficn 

 noticed among the Eskimo elsewhere, and appears to lie qiiile eharae 

 teristic of the race.^ They have acquired a taste for liipior, and like to 

 get enough to produce intoxiration. As well as we eould .jud.u:e, they 

 are easily affected liy alcohol. Some of fhem durin-- our stay learned 

 to he very fond of coffee, " ka/fe," but tea they are hardly aeipiainted 

 with, though they will drink it. I have noticed that lhe\ sonietinics 

 drank the water produced by the melting of the sea ice a Ion;; the beach, 

 and pronounced it excellent when it was so brackish that 1 found it iiuitc 

 uudriukable. 



The only narcotic in use among these i)eo])le is tobacco, which they 

 obtain directly or indirectly from the whites, and which 1ms been in use 

 among them from the earliest time when we have any kiu)wledge of 

 them. When Mr. Elscm, in the lUnssom's barge, visited Point Harrow, in 

 1826, he found tobacco in general use and the most marketable artide.- 

 This undoubtedly came from the Russians by way of Siberia and Her 

 lug Strait, as Kotzebue found the natives of the sound which bears his 

 name, who were in conununication with the Asiatic coast by wa.\ of the 

 Diomedes, already addicted to the use of tobacc<t in ISK;. It is not 

 probable that tobacco was introduced on the Arctic coast by way of the 

 Russian settlements in Alaska. There were no Russian posts north of 

 Bristol Bay until 18.'33, when St. Michael's Redoubt was Imilt. When 

 Capt. Cook visited Bristol Bay, in 177S, he found that tobacco was 

 not used there,^ while in Norton Sound, the same year, the natixcs "had 

 no dislike to tobacco."' Neither was it introduced from the I'lnglish 

 posts in the east, as Franklin Ibund the "Kurmu'i'dlin" not in the habit 

 of using it — "The W(;stern I'jsipumaux use tobacco, and some of our 

 visitors had smoked it. but thought the flavor very disagrci'able,"^— nor 

 had they adopted the habit in is:;;.^ 



When the ZVorer wintered at i'oint Harrow, according to Dr. Simpson's 

 account," all the tobacco, except a little obtained from the English dis- 

 covery slii])s, canu' from .\sia and was brought by the Nunatanmiun. 

 At itresent the latter brin.u \ery little if any toliacco, and the supply is 

 obtained directly from the shijis, though a little occasionally tinds its 

 way up the coast from the southwest. 



'Sec, for instance, Egctle : "Their Drink is notliing Irat Water" (Greenlaii<l, p. 134), and, - Fur- 

 thermore, tli«y put great Lumps of h<- ami Simw int.. tlit- \V:\Ur tiley .trink, to make it eooler for to 

 quench their Thirst" (p. 135). "Tli.ir .Irink i. . I. .n «;,i. i,« In. 1. .i:,i..N in thehousoinagrcat copper 



vessel, or in a wooden tub. • * ' Th. x l.i ill- m - -ii|.i.l» -!. «:.i.r every day * • • and 



that their water may be cool they eh....,.' .,.l.,^ ,,|.i.....M ,, hiil. ,.,..«■ iu it" » * * (Cr-antz, 



vol. 1, p. 144). Compare, also, I'arry, i:.l vo.v., p. :.'»., " 1.. l H 

 great deal of water, wliicb tliey j;et l)y mcltins .snow, anil like v 

 was observed by Nordetiskiiild in Siberia (Vega, vol. 2, p. 114) 



'Deechey, Voyage, p. 308. 



^Tliinl Voyai;.., vnl.2,p.4.'!7. 



'Ibid. -, |., IT'.l, 



«Se( 1 Kxp..p.l30. 



:lulik are 



fondness fill 



