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wind. That musk-oxen were to be found 

 a little distance up the rivers, and that we 

 should get drift wood along the shore. 

 He had no knowledge of the coast to the 

 eastward beyond the next river, which he 

 called Nappa-arktok-towock, or Tree River. 

 The old man, contrary to the Indian prac- 

 tice, asked each of our names ; and, in reply 

 to a similar question on our part, said his 

 name was Terregannceuck, or the White 

 Fox ; and that his tribe denominated them- 

 selves Nagge-ook-tormceoot, or Deer-Horn 

 Esquimaux. They usually frequent the 

 Bloody Fall during this and the following 

 moons, for the purpose of salting salmon, 

 and then retire to a river which flows into 

 the sea, a short way to the westward, (since 

 denominated Richardson's River,) and pass 

 the winter in snow-houses. 



After this conversation Terregannceuck 

 proposed going down to his baggage, and 

 we then perceived he was too infirm to 

 walk without the assistance of sticks. Au- 

 gustus, therefore, offered him his arm, 

 which he readily accepted, and on reaching 



