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Identifier: Journalsecondvo00Parr (find matches)
Title: Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates
Year: 1824 (1820s)
Authors: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795-1832, ill Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857, engraver Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, dedicatee
Subjects: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Fury (Ship) Hecla (Ship) Natural history Eskimos Inuit
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
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, they attacha whole seal-skin, (hovo-wut-la,) inflated like a bladder, for the purpose oftiring it out in its progress through the water. They have a spear called ippoo for killing deer in the water. They de-scribed it as having a light staff and a small head of iron ; but they had noneof these so fitted in the winter. The niigute, or dart for birds (19), has,besides its two ivory prongs at the end of the staff, three divergent ones in themiddle of it, with several small double barbs upon them turning inwards ; theydiffer from the nuguit of Greenland *, and that of the Savage Islands, in havingthese prongs always of unequal lengths. To give additional velocity to the bird-dart, they use a thro wing-stick (noke-shak) which is probably the same as the* hand-board figured by Crantz. It consists of a flat board about eighteeninches in length, having a groove to receive the staff, two others and a holefor the fingers and thumb, and a small spike fitted for a hole in the end of the Crantz.
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OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 509 staff. This instrument is used for the bird-dart only. The spear for salmonor other fish, called kdkkee-wei, consists of a wooden staff with a spike ofbone or ivory, three inches long, secured at one end. On each side of thespike is a curved prong, much like that of a pitch-fork, but made of flexiblehorn which gives them a spring, and having a barb on the inner part of thepoint turning downwards. Their fish-hooks (kakliokia) consist only of a nailcrooked and pointed at one end, the other being let into a piece of ivory towhich the line is attached. A piece of deers horn or curved bone, only afoot long, is used as a rod, and completes this very rude part of their fishing-gear (10). Of their mode of killing seals in the winter, I have already spoken in thecourse of the foregoing narrative, as far as we were enabled to make our-selves acquainted with it. In their summer exploits on the water, the killingof the whale is the most arduous undertaking which they

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