260 
LAST VOYAGE OF CAPT. ROSS. 
the Penny or the Saturday, it being too high and sublime for 
either of them, cannot for a moment be doubted by any one, 
who has the talent justly to appreciate poetical merit, and who 
can trace in the glowing images, which breathe in every line, 
the vigor of a Landon and the delicacy of a Hemans. We how'- 
ever most willingly grant permission to Capt. Ross to copy it 
into his forthcoming work, being anxious to furnish him with 
every opportunity of giving the utmost publicity, to ail the great 
and generous actions, which distinguished him as commander of 
the Victory. 
? Twas on the 9th of January a tribe of men we saw, 
They proved to be a race of men called the Esquimaux, 
They all were brought into the ship, 
And much was made of them. 
They got them for to come on board, 
And treated them as men. 
Always hereafter, they did come 
Unto us every day. 
Until they were all tired, then they 
With presents went away. 
We were all glad to see this tribe 
Information for to get, 
They told us that this was a bay, 
That we took for an inlet, 
After all this intelligence 
That these poor souls had told, 
They would not allow them to come on board. 
So they kept them in the hold. 
They was* not in the least affronted. 
But their dresses they did bring, 
* We should have considered ourselves called upon, as the admirers of the genius of the 
poet of the Victory, to have corrected this grammatical error, but we were properly influenced 
by the desire to allow him the same privileges which are claimed by the majority of the poets 
of the present day, who take all possible pains to shew us that grammar’ and poetry have no 
relationship with each other. 
