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lumps of white sugar; but they refused to touch them. 
They had evidently no apprehension of open violence 
from us. I found afterward that several among them 
were singly a match for the white bear and the walrus, 
and that they thought us a very pale-faced crew. 
METEK. 
Being satisfied with my interview in the cabin, I 
sent out word that the rest might be admitted to the 
ship; and, although they, of course, could not know 
how their chief had been dealt with, some nine or ten 
of them followed with boisterous readiness upon the 
bidding. Others in the mean time, as if disposed to 
