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whenever you want us, and show you where to find 
the game.” 
On the part of the Kablwnah, the white men, the 
stipulation was of this ample equivalent:— 
“We promise that we will not visit you with death 
or sorcery, nor do you any hurt or mischief whatsoever. 
We will shoot for you on our hunts. You shall be 
made welcome aboard ship. We will give you pre¬ 
sents of needles, pins, two kinds of knife, a hoop, three 
bits of hard wood, some fat, an awl, and some sewing- 
thread ; and we will trade with you of these and every 
thing else you want for walrus and seal-meat of the 
first quality.” 
And the closing formula might have read, if the 
Esquimaux political system had included reading 
among its qualifications for diplomacy, in this time- 
consecrated and, in civilized regions, veracious assur¬ 
ance :— 
“We, the high contracting parties, pledge ourselves 
now and forever brothers and friends. 
This treaty—which, though I have spoken of it 
jocosely, was really an affair of much interest to us— 
was ratified, with Hans and Morton as my accredited 
representatives, by a full assembly of the people at 
Etah. All our future intercourse was conducted under 
it. It was not solemnized by an oath; but it was 
never broken. We went to and fro between the 
villages and the brig, paid our visits of courtesy and 
necessity on both sides, met each other in hunting 
parties on the floe and the ice-foot, organized a general 
Vot. I.—24 
