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Updated: June 5, 2025
I have smoke all mine. Vill you give some? "`Here you are, said I, throwing a lump to the Esquimau. `Send Maximus to me; I want to speak with him. "`I is here, said Maximus, outside the tent. "`Ah! that's right. Now, Old Moggy, I'll be back in a few minutes, so don't go to sleep till I return.
When the Indian who had captured the Esquimau girl led her forward towards the fire, there was a general yell of indignation. Tomahawks were grasped, and more than one knife was unsheathed. But the chief commanded silence. "What does White Heart mean to do with the Eater-of-raw-flesh?" he inquired, turning to the young man. "He will take her to the hunting-grounds of the Crees."
After a few hurried gulps, the man strode towards his canoe; but as he went his restless eye became fixed on the branching antlers of a deer, that were tossed in the air on the summit of a neighbouring cliff. Like one who is suddenly paralysed, the Esquimau stood transfixed in the attitude in which he had been arrested.
We concluded to encamp with them, and get what information we could from them concerning our mate and the Franklin ships. We were fortunate in finding the old man, an interesting and important witness. "Esquimau Joe," Ishnark, and Equeesik acted as interpreters, and through them we learned that these people were in great distress for food.
"This is a bitter day," he said, "for little Amy to come to us; and yet, unless something unforeseen prevents, she will be at the station this evening." "Don't worry about the child," Burtis responded, promptly; "I'll meet her, and am glad of an excuse to go out this horrid day. I'll wrap her up in furs like an Esquimau."
There were only three figures in the boat, one of whom, by the violent gesticulations that he made as they approached, bespoke himself an Esquimau; the other two stood erect and motionless, the one by the tiller, the other by the sheet. "Let go," said a deep soft voice, when the boat was within a stone's-cast of the shore.
The best pieces of Esquimau carving are not these things, made by the dozen, but the domestic implements made for their own use, and some of this work is very clever and tasteful indeed, adorned with fine bold etchings of the chase of walrus, seal, and polar bear.
Music was there, too, in impressive quantity, if not quality. "An organette with about fifty yards of music," writes Lieutenant Greely, "afforded much amusement, being particularly fascinating to our Esquimau, who never wearied grinding out one tune after another."
Several days previous to this the Esquimau had been sent down to his brethren at False River, to procure some seal-meat for the dogs, and to ascertain the condition of the natives and their success in fishing. But Maximus found the old woman who had formerly saved his life very ill, and apparently about to die.
The women now stood up to the knees in water, with their paddles in their hands ready to embark. Stooping down, the Esquimau seized the canoe; but, just as he was about to lift it, he observed a tall dark object close to his side. "Wah!" whispered the Indian, "you are before me. Quick! the Esquimau dog will fire again."
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