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MEN. WIVES. 
TIGGEETAGUO. 
POOYATUK. 
TOOTOOAK. ...... . TERREKEWONA. 
IKMALIK. 
ARCHNALUAK..KAKKAAKENU. 
NARLOOK.MELENA* 
TIAGASU. 
OOBLOORAIAK. ..... ULUNENA. 
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From which it appears that, of eleven men of which the tribe 01 
division consisted, five only had wives, and their families combined 
amounted only to 14 persons, and not a female amongst them 
that was marriageable. We expect to receive the sincere thanks 
of Dr. Mai thus for this piece of intelligence, as we have pointed 
out to him one part of the globe, where the propagation of the 
human species is remarkably slow, and where there is no fear of 
the population exceeding the means of subsistence, so long as 
the seas continue to swarm with whales, seals., and walruses. 
The 7th being Sunday, after divine service had been performed, 
the crew were permitted to walk to the huts, at the same time 
that the steward took the sledge and the dogs for the purpose of 
exercising them. They bent their course first to the huts which 
had been deserted, for the express purpose of obtaining a view of 
the corpse of Illictu , which, in its then mangled state could not 
have been a very pleasing sight. On entering the hut, in which 
the surgeon had performed the operation of decapitation, it was 
evident from the marks which were distinguishable on the snow, 
that it had been visited by some savage animal, who perhaps had 
made a dainty meal of the remainder of the corpse, but still it 
was conjectured, that had such been the case, some remains of 
the body would have been found, for it was scarcely possible for 
