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had requested me to prevail upon the Esquimaux to 
receive them in a friendly manner ; to which he re- 
plied, he should rejoice to see an end put to the hos- 
tility that existed between the nations, and, therefore, 
would most gladly welcome our companions. Having 
despatched Adam to inform Akaitcho of this circum- 
stance, we left Terragannceuck, in the hope that his 
party would rejoin him ; but as we had doubts whe- 
ther the young men would venture upon coming to 
our tents, on the old man’s bare representation, we 
sent Augustus and Junius back in the evening, to re- 
main with him until they came, that they might fully 
detail to them our intentions. 
The countenance of Terregannceuck was oval, with 
a sufficiently prominent nose, and had nothing very 
different from an European face, except in the small- 
ness of his eyes, and, perhaps, in the narrowness of 
his forehead. His complexion was very fresh and red, 
and he had a longer beard than I have hitherto seen 
on any of the Aboriginal inhabitants of America. It 
was between two and three inches long, and pertectly 
white. His face was not tattoed. His dress consistcd 
of a shirt, or jacket with a hood, wide breeches, reach- 
ing only to the knee, and tight leggings sewed to the 
shoes, all of deers’ skins. The soles of the shoes were 
made of seal-skin, and stuffed with feathers instead of 
socks. He was bent with age, but appeared about 
