ARRIVAL OF ESQUIMAUX, 175 



We met again on the Sabbath for divine 

 worship on both parts of the day, as we had 

 done on the previous Sunday. As the Esqui- 

 maux did not make their appearance, we began 

 to think that the ice in the Bay might have 

 prevented their coming to the Factory. We 

 were relieved from our doubts however, on the 

 2nd of August, by Augustus running to the 

 Fort with the information that his countrymen 

 were seen coming along in their canoes. He 

 waited till he ascertained that Junius's brother, 

 who was said to have threatened his life, was not 

 of the party, and then went to meet them. 

 Some of them came over the rocks with the 

 canoes upon their heads, as being a much 

 nearer way to the Company's Post from the 

 spot where they left the Bay, than following the 

 course of the river. Their number, with a 

 small party that came soon afterwards, was 

 forty-two men, who brought with them a con- 

 siderable quantity of the Arctic fox skins, musk- 

 ox, and deer skins, with those of the wolf and 

 wolverine, together with sea-horse teeth, and 

 the horn of a sea-unicorn about six feet long 

 for barter at the Company's Post. In appear- 

 ance they strongly resembled each other, and 

 were all clothed with deer-skin jackets and 

 lower garments of far larger than usually Dutch 



