Show am Phreno Ph renol renoi IH 0 gi cal cai md M d 1 d ec THE I 1 V 1 from e from the narratives C of rege repe regent repent nt vo voyagers akers fre bre e will vhf select one pasi passage age descriptive deseri deserf alve olve 01 0 the Esqui E squi maux to which late events have imparted a new interest tha passage occurs in sir johir franklins aci ac i count of his first polar expedition published in london in the year 1829 we arrived wrote sir john abreast of upper savage ravage island early in the morning and us as the breeze ivas was moderate the ship chip was steered as near to the shore as the wind would permit to give an opportunity to tile tiie Esqui maux indians indiana of coming off to barter which they soon embraced Their bouts houts at a distance intimated thelah some rome time before we descried the canoes paddling towards us the headmost of or them reached us at eleven thebe these were quickly followed by others and arid before noon about forty canoes each holding one ona man were assemble assembled about the two ships inthe in the afternoon when we approached nearer the shore five or six large ones containing coa wi ning the women and children came up 19 the Esqui maux immediately evinced their desire desi reto to biti bitt baiter batter ter arld and displayed no bunni cunning dg in making their bargains taking care not to exhibit too ma many ny articles at fai girst first st their principal commodities were oil seahorse sea horse teeth whalebone seal skin dresses ases caps and boots deer skins and horne horns and models of their canoes and they received in exchange small smail saws knives nails tin kettles and needles it was pleasing 0 to o behold the exultation and to hear thie the shouts of tile the whole party when an acquisition was made by any one and not a little ludicrous ludl ious lous to behold the eagerness with which the fortunate person licked each eacil article with his tongue on receiving it as a finish to the bargain and an tin act of they in no instance omitted thia strange practice however small the article the needles even evea passed individually ll through roligh the ceremony the women brought brou bron glit imitations of men comeno women animals and birds carved with labor and ingenuity out of sea hors teeth thie the dresses and figures of the animals were not badly executed but there was no attempt at the thi delineation of the countenances and most of the figures were without eyes ears and fingers the execution of f which would perhaps have required more delo deir delicate instruments than they 7 possessed the men set act most value on saws 1 buttee affee sua swa bak saws ri was a constant cry knives were held next in estimation an old sword waa wag bartered from the eddystone and I 1 shall long remember the universal burst of joy on the happy mans receiving it it was delightful to 0 o witness the general interest excited by individual acquisition acquisitions there was no desire shown by any ow ona to overreach over reach his neighbor or to press towards any part of the hip where a baradin was making until the person on in in possession of the place had completed his exchange and removed and if any article happened to be demanded from the outer canoes the men nearest willingly in passing the thing across supposing Suppo hig the party to belong to one oiye tribe the tile toddi number of the tile tribe must axed two IHO hundred persons as there were probably one hu hundred cidred and fifty round the ships and few of these were elderly persons or male children their faces were broad and flat the eyes small the men were in general stout some of the younger momen women and the children had rather pleasing countenances but the difference between these and the more aged of that sex bore a strong testimony to the effects which a few fow years produce in ili this pu in genial climate most of the tile pirty had sore eyes e y es all of them appeared of a boric ic habit babit of body several were observed bleeding at the nose during their stay near the hip ship the mens dresses consisted of a L jacket achet of seal epal skin the trousers of bear aln ain in and several had caps of the white fox skin the female dresses were made of the same materi ils lis but differently biffi bently shaped Il having giving a hood in which the infants were carried we thought their manner very lively and arid agreeable they were fond of our speech and gesture gestures L but nothing them greater amusement than when we attempted to retaliate by pro coundrie noun coun drig tAng any of their words the tho canoes canoed were of sealskin seal skin and similar in every respect to those thore used by the Esqui maux in gree Grep greenland uland they were generally new and very complete in their appointments those appropriated to 0 o the women are of ruder construction and only calculated for fine weather they are re however useful vessels being capable of contain containing iun lug twenty persons with their the i r luggage I 1 a e an elderly mall man officiates as steersman all ali and t the 10 women paddle hut but they have also a mast which ilicia carriea carries a sil spit made of or kires ed whale gut wilen when llie the lomeo bome had disposed of all their articles of trade they resorted to entreaty eu treaty and the tha putting in practice many en enticing ici jig gestures was ma aged with so n much lucli address us es to procure ill ili lom irm arl presents of a varity vanity of beads needles and other articles in great demand among females it is probable ible thle these Esqui maux go from this bore to some part of labrador to pa pas 9 the vi titer as s of them have been frequently been seen ly by the homeward bound hudsons Hud sons bay ships shafia in ili tiie llie act of crossing the strait they appear to speak peak penk the tile same language as the tribe of or esquia ux who reside near to the moravian settlements in ili labrador for we perceived c ived they used several of the words which had been given to us by tile tite missionaries at towards the captain Cap being desirous to get rid of ills his aitos uto ii tos s took an effectual method by tacking from froin tile the shore chore our friends frienda then departed app apparently in high gl gleel at the harvest tewy had liae reaped ii they tiley paddled away awny very twy and would doubtless soon BOOR reec reach h the tha iao e though it was a tenar t twelve elve eive M mil mij i 11 at I 1 f I 1 VA F am cinn J r A 4 an n an another occasion it must 8 b e c confessed V kr ir yohn john brantli franklins Is interview t the hela hell ut aux was not so agreeable they displayed ver ican sid erable ingenuity in stealing articles fr I 1 3 1 boats and he came near being compelled t to resist their efi eff efforts ly a volley volrey etry As agen a general thing however the Esqui maux are honest and amiable they are aro passionately fond fand of music and value few things more than a jews harp A musical snuffbox snuff box throws them into of delight on oid ord one lo caslon occasion aland a handorgan and a musical snuff snuffbox box were exhibited to a party of Esqui maux and hey they concluded at once that the smaller instrument instrument was ives the offspring of the larger dar dai dancing nc ilig is an amusement of which as far as wa we can pan bearn earn the Esqui maux are not fond captain budington baa EdA ington ia in the fall of 1852 was ivas mate of f the tha bark McL malella eliah ellau n off the coast of greenland the keason season had ad been beer for whaling and little oil had been illeen obtained mr budington proposed to some of the he crew to remain with him during the winter with the esqui maux and employ their time in catching whales in the estul esqui 1 mauk maux manlier manner and accumulating oil against the opening of navi navigation leation in t the e spring the project was carided out the party arty was treated with great kindness by t the e esqui maux and arid five hundred barrels of oil were obtained the ship how however ever was wrecked and the crew were obliged to take passage in an english ship and deac reached home me by way of Eng england Tand nothing daunted captain budington rui Bui lington sailed 61 led again gain for greenland in 1853 in command of the iback bark hark georgiana georgians and after a few months cruising returned to new london with a thousand barrels of oil and a live lire Esqui maux from captain budington we obtained some information respecting ahe fhe habits of the esqui maux of the most interesting character and not previously published their manner of whaling says the captain is very simple and ingenious they skin some seals who leand blow up the skins like bladders these are attached to the barb of the harpoon by a strong sealskin seal skin line they paddle up to a whale and drive the harpoon home the whale immediately disappears beneath the surface I 1 but the floats make it impossible for him to sink more than a few feet and he be soon rises exhausted with the efforts and is dispatched with lances orto use the captain captains Cap taina s expressive language they work around him until they thes kill him the captain mentioned a plea piea pleasing ing fact illustrative of the good fe elling effing of the Esqui maux they frequently stand six or eight hours over a seal seat hole hoie without success and a whole settlement will be hungry from a general run of ill luck lack in that case if one seal is caught it is immediately divided among all the ii hunters in in proportion to the number of persons persona dependent upon each the women added captain budington do all the covering of the boats after the men have constructed the frame the tire frame is made of the ribs of the whale and such pieces of wood as they can pick up it is lashe lashed lleces nieces together with shreds of black whalebone whale bone the women make the summer tents and do all the rowing in the large bolts boits I 1 when a woman ia is about to become a mother they make a hut on purpose to receive her in which she stays until she is ready fo to commer corner out which is usually about twelve days during that period no one is is permitted to enter the but hut but a hole is left in the side through which pro prod visions visions are passed they have no medicines no medicine men no headmen head bead men nor chiefs no government of any kind no worship but all al are upon a an equality quality and live quietly and peaceably together crime is unknown amonn among among 0 them they have no forms of marriage but ahn a man ilae rise has obtained the parents consent he e takes the gid girl whether she is willing or not the womans comans dress is very similar to that of the men the hoods which they wear on their heir heads are made large enough to admit a child I 1 which they carry in the hood bood over the shoulder shon shor lder ilder the women wear sealskin seal skin trouse is ts like the men they narse nurse their children five or six years because they have no other food suitable to young children the men rarely live longer berthan than forty years the women fifty or sixty years and the reason why the women li live vlon vion ion lon ger than the men is because they are less exposed to the cold and the dangers of the sea thus there are always more knore women than men in a settlement and a man generally has to support the family ofa of a deceased comrada comrade or relative his own they are all exceedingly industrious to strangers they are very kind and hospitable with regard to the health of the Esqui maux capt buddington Buddin glon stated that they are subject to consumption and to dropsy though thou gh not to an extensive degree they The have a dinst instinctive P ketive aversion to medicine and if a ships physician should administer any thing to one of their s ack ck and the patient should die nothing could shake shahe their belief that he died in consequence of the medicine cine an opinion from which some of their civilized friends would not be inclined to dissent their teeth are good but worn down owing to their practice of chewing seal skin when a woman dies in the winter season reason the family merely vacate the hut but stop slop up the entrance and then consider her bur hurried ried in the spring when the snow roof has melted off the dogs devour the remains when a woman dies in aemmer they take out the sticks which support the tent and let the seal skin covering fall in a mass over her ber body and so let it rei rel remain nain A man mans Is body is disposed of in a still more summary manner the moment he has breathed his hig hi lavt lust a team te m of dogs ia is harnessed to his body anid and it is drga dragged ed to some crevice in a rock a 0 little way wiy fr from 0 h 8 e de bl t dogs 11 4 ave be n said saidi Capt Buddin iton ifon Ithe children lookin looking on in ind d seeing the ds fi their awn wn parents barents and they gly kiy were apparently elated at the eighth aler ther there e ia isa belief among max that if the ravens eat the dead bodies the souls of 0 the tle departed per perd perr sli ish but not so if their flesh is dev devoured by dogs the they braive have an ingenious plan af pf la shoeing boeing their sleds sieds sieds before starting on it journey they smear the runners with a mixture of seals blood and wa water i which immediately freezes into an icy lcy shoe this will last all day and the process is repeated every eveny morning A and rid thus life goes on in im the icy regions of the north by such expedient isline is life ilfe preserved amid the cold which would stop its vital currants amid barrenness which continually threaten threatens inanition let no one pity the Esqui maux lie he is equal to his situation and nature that seems beems his enemy has given him ample compensation for the apparent dreariness of his lot gorgeous is that polar night with the spier splendors dors of tile the aurora and the frosted silver of the te iseburg s towering pinnacles and th ehfe living crea creatures tures turea of the arctic world the lordly bear the frolicsome seal beal sea the kindly inane man seem above all the rest of ire Pre breathing athing creation to be sedately happy or exuberantly uber antly joyous |