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a present, he placed each article first on his 

 right shoulder, then on his left ; and when 

 he wished to express still higher satisfac- 

 tion, he rubbed 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 exclaimed, 

 4 6 I shall never kill deer more," and imme- 

 diately 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 nigh 

 the deer, either by crawling, or by 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 pother 

 two lying in the same straight line with the 

 bowstring; the pieces are neatly tied to- 

 gether 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 



