Journal of a Voyage through the 



any of the articles that I offered them ; particularly such 

 as were of a blue colour; and one of them even requested 

 to exchange a knife which I had given him for a small 

 quantity of those ornamental baubles. I purchased of 

 them two shirts for my hunters; and at the same time 

 they presented me with some arrows, and dried fish. This 

 party consisted of five families, to the amount, as I sup- 

 pose, of forty men, women, and children ; but I did not 

 see them all, as several were afraid to venture from their 

 hiding-places. They are called Deguthee Dinees^ or the 

 Shiarrellers, 



Our guide, like his predecessors, now manifested his 

 wish to leave us, and entertained similar apprehensions 

 that we should not return by this passage. He had his 

 alarms also respecting the Esquimaux, who might kill us, 

 and take away the women. Our Indians, however, assured 

 him that we had no fears of any kind, and that he need not 

 be alarmed for himself. They also convinced him that we 

 should return by the way we were going, so that he con- 

 sented to re-embark without giving us any further trouble; 

 and eight small canoes followed us. Our courses this day 

 were South- West by West six miles, South- West by 

 South thirty miles, SoUth-West three miles, West by South 

 twelve miles, West by North two miles, and we encamped 

 at eight in the evening on the Eastern bank of the river. - 



The Indians whom I found here, informed me, that 

 from the place where I this morning met the first of their 

 tribe, the distance over land, on the East side, to the sea, 

 was not h)ng ; and that from hence, by proceeding to the 

 Westward, it was still shorter. They also represented the- 

 land on both sides as projecting to a point. These people 

 do not appear to harbour any thievish dispositions ; at 

 least we did not perceive that they took, or wanted to take, 

 any thing* from us by stealth or artifice. They enjoyed the 

 amusements of dancing and jumping in common with those 

 we had already seen ; and, indeed, these exercises seem 

 to be their favourite diversions. About mid-day the wea- 

 ther was sultry, but in the afternoon it became cold. 

 There Was a large quantity of wild flax, the growth of the 

 last year, laying on the ground, and the new plants were 

 sprouting up through it. This circumstance I did not 

 observe in any other part. 



Friday 10. At four in the morning we embarked, at a 

 small distance from the place of our encampment ; the 



