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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
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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sellhis, I ordered him away, when he immediately rowed to the Hecla and, asI was afterwards informed by Captain Lyon, sold his oil for less than hemight have obtained at first. Four other oomiaks afterwards came from theshore, from which we were distant five or six miles. Each of these containedfrom fourteen to twenty-six persons, the majority being females and youngchildren. Upon the whole, not less than one hundred of the natives visitedthe ships in the course of the evening. These people possessed in an eminent degree the disposition to steal allthey could lay their hands on, which has almost universally been imputedto every tribe of Esquimaux hitherto visited by Europeans. They tried, morethan once, the art of picking our pockets, and were as bold and unembar-rassed as ever, immediately after detection. It is impossible to describe thehorribly disgusting manner in which they sat down, as soon as they felthungry, to eat their raw blubber, and to suck the oil remaining on the skins
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OP A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 15 we had just emptied, the very smell of which, as well as the appearance, 1821.was to us almost insufferable. The disgust which our seamen could not ^ri,help expressing at this sight seemed to create in the Esquimaux the mostmalicious amusement; and when our people turned away literally unableto bear the sight without being sick, they would, as a good joke amongthemselves, run after them holding out a piece of blubber or raw sealsflesh, dripping with oil and filth, as if inviting them to partake of it. Boththe men and women were guilty of still more disgusting indecencies, whichseemed to afford them amazing diversion. A worse trait even than allthese was displayed by two women alongside the Hecla, who, in a mannertoo unequivocal to be misunderstood, offered to barter their children forsome article of trifling value, beginning very deliberately to strip them oftheir clothes, which they did not choose to consider as included in the in-tended bargain. Upon the

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