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LAST VOYAGE OF CAPT. ROSS. 
of the animal, and although a severe disappointment had cer¬ 
tainly occurred in the first instance, it was decided that after 
the joint had undergone the necessary process of being thawed, 
it would amply remunerate the associates of the cabin for the 
gross imposition that had been so flagrantly practiced upon them, 
by the marchandes de viandes of the Esquimaux nation, in dis¬ 
posing of the intestines as an edible part of the animal. 
It was perhaps well for the Esquimaux, that none of them 
visited the ship on the day when this lamentable disappointment 
took place, or the treatment received by them would have been 
such, as perhaps to deter them from ever visiting it again. 
On the following day the angry ebullition of the captain had sub¬ 
sided, and when the Esquimaux made their appearance bringing 
with them two beautiful dogs, they were received according to 
the usual custom adopted on such occasions, which was somewhat 
similar to the haughty nabob giving an audience to his depend¬ 
ent satraps. A person, who buys an ass at Smithfield, generally 
repents that he has bought him at all, for although the purchase 
may be a work of very easy execution, the getting home of the 
animal partakes very often of the opposite character. The dogs 
which the Esquimaux had brought, were, fine, full grown, stately 
looking animals, portending by their exterior appearance, that 
they were physically able to drag the captain of the Victory to 
inspect the monuments of snow, which his crew had erected in 
divers parts of the country, or to convey his person on any other 
excursion, which the peculiar nature of the service on which he 
was employed might require. The price demanded for the dogs 
was high, but then who would like to be drawn along in a 
hackney coach, by two half starved, decrepid animals, first- 
cousins to Rosinaute, and with whom flesh and bone appear to 
have entered into a deed of separation for ever : when they could 
be hurried along by the pampered steeds of royalty, or the noble 
generous animals, which make*the pavements of the metropolis 
tremble with their prancings and their curvettings. It appears 
however, that it is not the degree of latitude or of longitude 
in which a man may find himself, that alters the nature of his 
character, he is the same whether shivering beneath an arctic 
