TRUTHFULNESS OF INNUIT HISTORY. 



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" How long it does take to gather in all of the links of this 

 chain three hundred years old ! I am convinced that were I on 

 King William's Land and Boothia, and could I live there two 

 years, I could gather facts relative to Sir John Franklin's expedi- 

 tion — gather facts from the Innuits — that would astonish the civ- 

 ilized world. How easy to go back a score of years or so, and 

 get truthful history from among the Innuits, compared with what 

 it is to plunge into the history of near three centuries, and draw 

 out the truth ! May I live to see the day when I can visit King 

 William's Land and Boothia, and secure the full history, as it must 

 exist among the Innuits there, of that expedition !" 



civilization sledge. (See Appendix, No. 11. ) 



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