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one to delight or please but himself, but even, in which, he 
could not sometimes succeed, it was frequently his custom to 
amuse himself w'ith chanting the stave of a favorite song, and in 
one of the brightest moments of his life, when he was threading 
his way from the Admiralty, to the distillery of Mr. Booth, 
in Whitechapel, in anticipation of what there awaited him, he 
heard the well known parody to Neukomn’s matchless song, 
of “ the Sea, the Sea,” beginning “ the Gin! the Gin !”—and what 
better opportunity could present itself, than during the absence 
of the deputation, as domine Sampson would say, of preludis- 
ing a little, and of essaying to please himself by humming 
over the spirited stanzas of the song. The nectar before him 
being in strength and sweetness agreeable to his palate, he 
placed his two feet in the same position in which that clever 
artist Crowquis, has delineated him in Fraser’s Magazine, and 
in his '‘native wood notes wiid,” warbled the well-known 
song. 
He had just finished the third stanza, when the deputation 
entered, headed by Commander Ross, who delivered the follow¬ 
ing report. It was with the greatest ease that an audience had 
been obtained of Arclinaluach, the senior of the tribe, and an au¬ 
dience it was in the strictest sense of the word, for although a 
multitude of sounds met the ears of the respective parties, yet 
scanty indeed was the quantity of meaning, which could be 
extracted from them ; the Kabloonas in becoming and respectful 
terms explained the import of their visit, which by the Esqui¬ 
maux was answered by a polite invitation to partake of a slice 
of blubber; the Kabloonas inquired how long they were going 
to remain in their present position; the Esquimaux inquired if 
they had about them, such a thing as a few fish-hooks ; the Ka¬ 
bloonas told them that they had taken possession of their country 
in the name of George the Fourth ; the Esquimaux told them 
that the seals began io be very scarce, and thus it became evi¬ 
dent to the members of the deputation, that they were playing 
at the game of contraries with each other, and that as neither 
of them understood the language, which each other spoke, it 
was perfectly the same, whether they conversed about George 
