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cent as to be within the memory of two of our present 
companions, they had great difficulty in understanding 
them. Several quarrels took place at their first meet- 
ings, in consequence of the western party attempting 
to steal ; but latterly there has been a good under- 
standing between them, and the exchanges have been 
fairly made. 
Our visitors did not know from what people either 
the Indians or the Esquimaux obtained the goods, 
but they supposed from some ‘“‘ Kabloonacht,” (white 
people,) who reside far to the west. As the articles 
we saw were not of British manufacture, and were 
very unlike those sold by the Hudson’s Bay,Company 
‘to the Indians, it cannot be doubted that they are 
furnished by the Russian Fur Traders, who receive in 
return for them all the furs collected on this northern 
coast. Part of the Russian iron-work is conveyed to 
the Esquimaux dwelling on the coast east of the 
Mackenzie. The western Esquimaux use tobacco, 
and some of our visitors had smoked it, but thought 
the flavor very disagreeable. Until I was aware of 
their being acquainted with the use of it, I prohibited 
my men from smoking in their presence, and after- 
wards from offering their pipes to the Esquimaux at 
any time. At the conclusion of this conference, our 
visitors assured us, that having now become acquaint- 
.. ed with white people, and being conscious that the 
