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children, were pretty. The lady whose por- 

 trait adorns this work, was mightily pleased 

 at being selected by Lieutenant Back for 

 his sketch, and testified her joy by smiles 

 and many jumps. The men, when sitting 

 for their portraits, were more sedate, though 

 not less pleased, than the females ; some of 

 them remarked that they were not hand- 

 some enough to be taken to our country. " 



Having passed the first range of the 

 Rocky Mountains, and between it and the 

 second, a large river, at least two miles 

 broad, was observed to empty itself into 

 the Polar Sea, after coming, as the Esqui- 

 maux informed them, from a distant part of 

 the interior. Near to Herschel's Island, in 

 latitude 69° 33' N. longitude 139° 3' W., 

 was another river, which they call the 

 Mountain Indian River. Here they fell in 

 with a party of Esquimaux, who traded up 

 that river and to the westward with their 

 countrymen, who obtain their goods from 

 white people, and which Capt. Franklin had 

 no doubt, from the appearance of the articles, 

 were of Russian manufacture. There is 

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