CHAPTER XXVIII. 
THE ESQUIMAUX — LARCENY — THE ARREST — THE PUNISHMENT — 
THE TREATY- (( UNBROKEN FAITIl”—MY BROTHER — RETURN 
FROM A HUNT-OUR LIFE-ANOATOK-A WELCOME — TREATY 
CONFIRMED. 
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It is, I suppose, the fortune of every one who affects 
to register the story of an active life, that his record 
becomes briefer and more imperfect in proportion as 
the incidents press upon each other more rapidly and 
with increasing excitement. The narrative is arrested 
as soon as the faculties are claimed for action, and the 
memory brings back reluctantly afterward those details 
which, though interesting at the moment, have not re¬ 
flected themselves in the result. I find that my journal 
is exceedingly meagre for the period of our anxious 
preparations to meet the winter, and that I have 
omitted to mention the course of circumstances which 
led us step by step into familiar communication with 
the Esquimaux. 
My last notice of this strange people, whose for¬ 
tunes became afterward so closely connected with our 
own, was at the time of Myouk’s escape from imprison- 
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