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ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. 



"King's Cape," at a place called by Esquimaux Se-ko-se-lar* This 

 man's name was Koo-choo-ar-choo,but known by us as " Sampson," 



THE GEOEGB HENRY IN WINTER QUARTERS. 



from his great size and strength. He was large and muscular, 

 five feet six inches high, and weighing over 200 lbs. He was 

 famous, too, as a great hunter, and had even captured whales by 

 himself ] with only the aid of a boy ! When he visited us, his pretty 

 little daughter PuJc-e-ne-yer, of about ten years old, accompanied 

 him, and I was much amused with the nimble way in which she 

 undid and then rebraided her hair. The use of a comb she did 

 not know until I gave her one and showed her. As for the fa- 

 ther, I found him very intelligent, and, through Tookoolito, who 

 acted as my interpreter, he gave me much geographical informa- 

 tion. 



Another of our visitors was Puto, the mother of a white child. 



* From various sketches drawn for me by Esquimaux, I concluded Se-ko-se-lar 

 to be a place on the north side of Hudson's Strait, near a large bay as yet undiscov- 

 ered by white men. This bay is somewhere between the longitudes 72° and 75° 

 west, making far up, due north, and abounding in seals, walrus, white whales, and 

 the Mysticeti, or Greenland whales. 



