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retire to a distance, I conceived that they acquiesced 
in the propriety of the suggestion, and that they were 
going away, but I was much deceived. They only 
retired to concert a plan of attack, and returned in a 
short time shouting some words which Augustus could 
not make out. We soon, however, discovered their 
purport, by two of the three chiefs who were on board 
the Reliance, jumping out, and, with the others who 
hurried to their assistance, dragging her towards the 
south shore of the river. Lieutenant Back desired 
the chief who remained with him to tell them to 
desist, but he replied by pointing to the beach, and 
repeating the word teyma, teyma, with a good-natured 
smile. He said, however, something to those who 
were seated in the canoes that were alongside, on 
which they threw their long knives and arrows into 
the boat, taking care, in so doing, that the handles 
and feathered ends were turned towards the crew, as 
an indication of pacific intentions. 
As soon ag I perceived the Reliance moving under: 
the efforts of the natives, I directed the Lion’s crew to 
endeavor to follow her, but our boat remained fast un- 
til the Esquimavx lent their aid and dragged her after 
the Reliance. Two of the most powerful men, jump- 
ing on board at the same time, seized me by the wrists 
and forced me to sit between them ; and as I shook 
them loose two or three times, a third Esquimaux 
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