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singing and humming to themselves, sometimes, according to Capt. 
Herendeen, waking up in the night to sing. Besides their regular fes- 
tivals they often amuse themselves in their houses by singing to the 
drum. They are fond of civilized music, and, having usually very quick 
and rather acute ears, readily catch the tunes, which they sing with 
curiously mutilated words. We found ‘‘Shoo Fly” and “ Little Brown 
Jug” great favorites at the time of our arrival, and one old woman 
from Nuwtk, told us with great glee, how Magwa (Maguire) used to 
sing “ Tolderolderol.” Our two violins, the doctor’s and the cook’s, 
were a constant source of delight to them. 
Capt. Parry' gives an excellent account of the musie of the people of 
Fury and Hecla Straits.’ 
I regret extremely that I was not enough of a musician to write down 
on the spot the different tunes sung by these people. The ordinary 
monotonous chant is so devoid of air that I can not possibly recollect 
it, and the same is true of the chant which accompanies the game of 
pebble-tossing. I was able, however, to catch by ear the song sung 
by the children when they dance to the anrora. I never had the whole 
of this song, which we were told had a large number of stanzas. The 
first three are as follows: 
1. Kiéya ke, kidya ke, 
A, yar, yar, ya, 
Hwi, hwi, hwi, hwi! 
2. Tidlimana, tidlimana, 
A yanr, yane, ya, 
Hwi, hwi, hwi, hwi! 
3. Kalutand, kalutana, 
A yan, yar, ya, 
Hwi, hwi, hwi, hwi! 
We did not succeed in learning the meaning of these words, except, 
of course, that the first word, kiéya, is aurora. When there is a bright 
aurora, the children often keep on dancing and singing this song till 
late into the night. A tune was introduced in the spring of 1883 by a 
party of men from Kilauwitaéwin, who came up to take part in the 
whale-fishing at Utkiavwin. It became at once exceedingly popular, 
and everybody was singing or humming it. It is peculiar in being in 
waltz or } time, and has considerably more air than the ordinary tunes. 
I heard no words sung to it except: “O hai hai yéna, O hai yana, O 
haija he, haija he.” Mr. Dall informs me that he recognizes this tune 
as one sung by the Indians on the Yukon. 
ART. 
The artistic sense appears to be much more highly developed among 
the western Eskimo than among those of the east. Among the latter, 
12d Voyage, p. 541. 
?See also the passage from Crantz, quoted above; Dall, Alaska, p. 16; and Nordenskiéld, Vega, vol. 
2, pp. 23 and 130. 
