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CHAPTER V. 
PROCEEDINGS FROM THE FIRST OF MARCH, 1830, TO THE FIRST OF SEPTEMBER, 1330 
Notwithstanding the treatment, which the Esquimaux re¬ 
ceived, they continued their visits daily to the ship, bringing 
with them a number of articles, the majority of which were 
claimed and purchased by Capt. Ross. Commander Ross find¬ 
ing that the trap, which he had constructed for the caption of the 
gluttons did not prove successful, he questioned some of the Es¬ 
quimaux on the subject, and they agreed to build one for him on 
their own construction. They accordingly accompanied him to 
a particular place, where it was alleged that the gluttons fre¬ 
quented, but strange to tell, not a glutton was caught in the 
trap, although it was subsequently discovered that the worthy 
Commander, in spite of his superior sense and wisdom was himsell 
caught in the trap, which the stupid and simple Esquimaux had laid 
for him. It appeared indeed most surprising to the Commander, 
that the natives, especially the two, who had assisted him in the 
construction of the trap, seldom visited the ship without bring¬ 
ing a glutton with them, but although he visited his trap daily, 
not a glutton was to be seen, yet by the marks of their steps in 
the snow, it was evident that they had been close to it. Suspect¬ 
ing that he was the dupe of these artless, simple people, and though 
not exactly a glutton himself, that he had been entrapped by 
them, he resolutely accused them at once, Tiklikpoke kakawick 
mikkee, “ you steal glutton.” In many previous instances, Com¬ 
mander Ross had succeeded in impressing upon the minds of the 
natives, that he possessed some secret power of discovering their 
