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JOURNEY TO THE SHORES 



Esquimaux with a copy of St. John's Gos- 

 pel, printed for the use of the Moravian 

 Missionary Settlements on the Labrador 

 coast, it appeared that the Esquimaux who 

 resort to Churchill speak a language essen- 

 tially the same with those who frequent the 

 Labrador coast. The Red Knives too 

 recognise the expression Teyma, used by 

 the Esquimaux when they accost strangers 

 in a friendly manner, as similarly pronounced 

 by Augustus, and those of his race who 

 frequent the mouth of the Copper-Mine 

 River. 



The tribe to which Augustus belongs 

 resides generally a little to the northward 

 of Churchill. In the spring, before the ice 

 quits the shores, they kill seal, but during 

 winter they frequent the borders of the 

 large lakes near the coast, where they 

 obtain fish, rein-deer, and musk-oxen. 



There are eighty-four grown men in the 

 tribe, only seven of whom are aged. Six 

 chiefs have each two wives ; the rest of the 

 men have only one, so that the number of 

 married people may amount to one hundred 



