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... Esquimaux to the river of which Hearne was instructed to make a survey . On the 7th of December , 1770 , the journey was begun . Mr. Hearne being unaccompanied by either European or home - guard Indian , in fact , entirely dependent on ...
... Esquimaux to the river of which Hearne was instructed to make a survey . On the 7th of December , 1770 , the journey was begun . Mr. Hearne being unaccompanied by either European or home - guard Indian , in fact , entirely dependent on ...
Page 123
... Esquimaux . * Mr. Hearne endeavoured to dissuade them from this intention , but he had no influence , and finding that they were firmly bent on the enterprise , he made no scruple about accompanying them . They , accordingly , left all ...
... Esquimaux . * Mr. Hearne endeavoured to dissuade them from this intention , but he had no influence , and finding that they were firmly bent on the enterprise , he made no scruple about accompanying them . They , accordingly , left all ...
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... Esquimaux at the Bloody Fall , I abstain from any recital . Mr. Hearne was a close and wonderfully unconcerned spectator of this most diabolical massacre , and describes it with painful circumstantiality . Their return was by a more ...
... Esquimaux at the Bloody Fall , I abstain from any recital . Mr. Hearne was a close and wonderfully unconcerned spectator of this most diabolical massacre , and describes it with painful circumstantiality . Their return was by a more ...
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... Esquimaux killed large fishes . It was the Arctic Ocean he had reached ! * Next day , those large fishes , which proved to be whales , were seen disporting themselves , and Mackenzie , seized with a sudden penchant for making war upon ...
... Esquimaux killed large fishes . It was the Arctic Ocean he had reached ! * Next day , those large fishes , which proved to be whales , were seen disporting themselves , and Mackenzie , seized with a sudden penchant for making war upon ...
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... Esquimaux were seen towards the mouth of the river , but they were frightened and ran away at the appearance of the party ; and the only individual of that tribe , with whom they entered into intercourse , was an aged man at the Bloody ...
... Esquimaux were seen towards the mouth of the river , but they were frightened and ran away at the appearance of the party ; and the only individual of that tribe , with whom they entered into intercourse , was an aged man at the Bloody ...
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ALEXANDER SIMPSON America Arctic coast Arctic Discovery Arctic Ocean arrived Athabasca August Back's Bear Lake boats brother Canada Canadian canoes Cape Barrow Captain Back Captain Franklin Chief Trader Chipewyan cold Company's Coppermine River crossed Dease Dease's River Deponent distance dogs eastward encampment England Esquimaux establishment expedition exploration extremity fall fatigue Fish River Fort Chipewyan Fort Reliance Governor Simpson Hearne honour hope Hudson's Bay Company hundred Indians islands journey July June labours land Legros letter Mackenzie River ments miles mind mouth narrative natives navigation North north-west northern Norway House object officers party passage passed pemican Point Barrow portage pounds proceeded provisions reached Red River Colony Ross route Saulteaux season servants shore Simp Slave Lake snow spring Straits success summer survey thence THOMAS SIMPSON tion trade travelling tribes Victoria Land voyage westward winter York Factory
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Page 413 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Page 24 - As in the succession of the seasons, each, by the invariable laws of Nature, affects the productions of what is next in course ; so, in human life, every period of our age, according as it is well or ill spent, influences the happiness of that which is to follow. Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing manhood ; and such manhood passes of itself, without uneasiness, into respectable and tranquil old age. But when nature is turned out of its regular course, disorder takes...
Page 350 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Page 14 - As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
Page 24 - If the spring put forth no blossoms, in summer there will be no beauty, and in autumn, no fruit: so, if youth be trifled away without improvement, manhood will probably be contemptible, and old age miserable.
Page 314 - August was signalised by the most terrific thunder-storm we have ever witnessed in these regions. Next day it blew roughly from the westward, with a very dense cold fog, but we ran rapidly south-east...
Page 318 - Boss, is in all probability one of the southeastern promontories of Boothia. We could therefore hardly doubt being now arrived at that large gulf uniformly described by the Esquimaux as containing many islands, and with numerous indentations, running down to the southward till it approaches within forty miles of Repulse and Wager Bays.
Page 71 - It smokes, and then with trembling breath she blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose. With brushwood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten trees. The fire thus formed, she sets the kettle on...
Page 134 - The suffering it occasions can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience of marching with a weight of between two and three pounds constantly attached to galled feet, and swelled ankles.
Page 26 - I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away.