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CAPTAIN FRANKLIN. 



Fort, two Indians paddled their canoe to the 

 side of the boat, and requested that I would 

 take a little boy, who was with them, under 

 my charge. This I consented to do, if they 

 would bring him to me on my return to the 

 Colony ; and I threw him a blanket, as he was 

 almost naked, and suffering apparently from 

 cold. In landing at the Factory, I had the 

 pleasure of meeting Captain Franklin, and the 

 gentlemen of the Northern Land Expedition, 

 recently returned from their arduous journey 

 to the mouth of the Coppermine River, and 

 waiting for the return of the Company's ship 

 to England. An Esquimaux Indian, who ac- 

 companied the expedition as one of the guides, 

 named Augustus, and who survived the sup- 

 posed fate of his companion, Junius, # often 

 came to my room, and interested me with his 

 conversation in English, which was tolerably 

 well understood by him, from the instructions 

 he had received during his travels. He belongs 

 to a tribe that annually visits Churchill Fac- 

 tory, from the northward; and often assures 

 me, that " Esquimaux want white man to come 

 and teach them;" and tells me, that they 



* See Captain Franklin's Journey to the Coppermine 

 River, Vol. II. p, 270, second edition, 



