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February m * sec * to l QC te e an ^ feed the widow in his own hut. She was therefore sent 

 ^v^- back on the 10th upon Captain Lyon's sledge, having first expressed her 

 gratitude by stealing a knife, which was found concealed under her jacket 

 at the moment of her departure. 



Toolemak, who came to the ships to-day, was extremely low and dejected 

 on account of Noogloo's death, and it was often remarked afterwards that the 

 tears stood in his eyes whenever he spoke of that young man. He went 

 several times into the hospital, asked Innooksioo a number of questions re- 

 specting his lodging and other accommodations, of which he had good sense 

 enough to see the full value, and sufficient candour to thank us very heartily 

 for our attentions. This man furnished the only instance that came under 

 our notice, of any thing approaching to superiority acknowledged by the Es- 

 quimaux. To Toolemak's opinion and wishes many of the others unques- 

 tionably paid considerable deference, and he appeared in many instances to 

 be so much better furnished with food than the rest, that he undoubtedly 

 drew occasional supplies from several of the tribe. This distinction, which 

 went no farther than I have related, and for which he was of course indebted 

 to his professional merits, was after all confined to a certain party ; the rest 

 of the Esquimaux always listening with extreme satisfaction to any thing 

 that might be said to Toolemak's disadvantage, and evidently triumphing 

 in his disgrace. 



The Esquimaux had about this time killed several sea-horses and meat 

 was abundant at the village. They also killed several bears in the course 

 of the winter, amounting in all to eight or ten, in the space of six or 

 seven months ; but none of those animals had been seen near the ships on 

 account of our distance from the open water. 

 Tues. 11. A brother of Innooksioo's called Toolooak, a lad about the same age as our 

 young friend of that name, came to the ships to-day with a severe gash in 

 his leg, accidentally inflicted by his own knife ; and the wound proving a 

 deep one and much inflamed, Mr. Edwards recommended his being received 

 into the hospital. Here, however, we had to encounter a fresh series of 

 perverseness ; for even his own brother objected to his coming into the same 

 apartment, and it was not without some difficulty that we contrived to get 

 him established there. Innooksioo, upon the whole, however, proved a 

 good and tractable patient enough. Some of his tricks were laughable 

 because quite inoffensive ; among which was a habit of endeavouring to ex- 

 cite the compassion of every body that went into the hospital, by complain- 



