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the world. The sun was then shining in his 

 glory, and the scenery in the full tide of the 

 water before us was striking and beautiful ; 

 when I asked them, if they knew who made 

 the heavens, the waters, and the earth, and all 

 things that surrounded us, so pleasing to our 

 sight ? their reply was, c We do not know 

 whether the Person who made these things is 

 dead or alive.' On assuring them that I knew, 

 and that it was my real wish that they and 

 their children should know also the Divine 

 Being, who was the Creator of all things ; and 

 on repeating the question, whether they wished 

 that white man should come and give them 

 this knowledge, they all simultaneously ex- 

 pressed a great desire that he should, laughing 

 and shouting, " heigh ! heigh ! augh ! augh !" 

 One of them afterwards gave me a map of the 

 coast which they traversed, including Chester- 

 field Inlet, and which he drew with a pencil 

 that I lent him, with great accuracy, pointing 

 out to me the particular rivers where the 

 women speared salmon in the rapids in sum- 

 mer, while the men were employed in killing 

 the deer, as they crossed in the water some 

 points of the Inlet ; or were hunting on the 

 coast, catching seals. Being provident, and 

 not so regardless of the morrow as the Indians 



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