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five feet ten inches high. His hands and feet were 
small in proportion to his height. Whenever Terre- 
ganneeuck received a present, he placed each article’ 
first on his right shoulder, then on his left ; and when 
he wished to express still higher satisfaction, he rub- 
bed it over his head. He held hatchets, and other 
iron instruments, in the highest esteem, On seeing 
his countenance in a glass for the first time, he ex- 
claimed, “I shall never kill deer more,” and immedi- 
ately put the mirror down. The tribe to which he 
belongs repair to the sea in spring, and kill seals ; as 
the season advances they hunt deer and musk oxen 
at some distance from the coast. Their weapon is 
the bow and arrow, and they get sufficiently near to 
the deer, either by crawling, or leading these animals 
by ranges of turf towards a spot where the archer can 
conceal himself, Their bows are formed of three 
pieces of fir, the centre piece alone bent, the other 
two lying in the same straight line with the bow- 
string ; the pieces are neatly tied together with sinew. 
Their canoes are similar to those we saw in Hudson’s 
Straits, but smaller. They get fish constantly in the 
rivers, and in the sea as soon as the ice breaks up, 
This tribe does not make use of nets, but they are 
tolerably successful with the hook and line. Their - 
cooking utensils are made of pot-stone, and they form 
very neat dishes of fir, the sides being made of thin 
