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coarse, is With them natural ; they seem ednearaillti alb
exercise of it ; and thus attain, apparently without cart,
what all the complicated machinery of government has
hitherto failed m acquire. •
The account of llggliak, who becomes, in the progress
of this narrative, a personage of peculiar interest, will be
extremely gratifying to all who are fond of studying the
female zharacter in all the various shapes i 4 whieb it pee-
wits iteelf in the various condition/ of society.
On the 7th I paid another visit in tho hots, where I found
scarcely anybody but women and children, the whole of *nun,
with the exception of the two oldest, having gone cei a abaft es-
emotion to the north-eastern side of the island. Otis if the women
named Illgintk, a aster of the lad Toolonak, who favoured Oil
with a long, struck us as having a remart ably "eft voice, an ex-
cellent ear. iii)d a great fondness for singing, for there ban seareele
any stopping. her when she had once begun. We had, on their fires
visit to the ships, remarked this trait in Ili:tholes disposition, w
she was hrenit g for the first time to the sound of the organ' oftoft
which she seemed cever to have mouth; and aimed every day she
now began to display some symptom of that superinity cif tinder-
standing for which the was so remarkably distinguished. A few
of the women learned several of one names to-day, and I believe
all thought its Angekoks • of a very superior class, when we re-
pented to them all round, by the ellidetance of our books, the
names of all their husbands obtained in boded the preceding day.
in our way back to the ships we ea* a Piety of them, with their
dogs, returning MT the hill from the north-eastwarl ; and we af-
terwards met another of right or ten who had walked frond by the
south-east point on the ice, all alike unsuccessful, atter being out
in the wind for Six hours. with the thermometer from eighteen so
twenty-two degrees below sm. Thus hardly slid these people
obtain their daily subsistence at this severe•eison of the year'
A wolf being caught in one of the traps this evening which was
sea doer as to be evilly watched from the ship, a party of the °di-
cers ran out to secure the depredator, and fired two balls into the
trap at once to despatch him. Finding after thin that he continued
to bites sword that was thrust in, a third shot was fired eat hint.
The trap was then suelciently opened to get his hind legs firmly
tied together, after which, being considered tolerably secure, he was
pulled out of the trap, which, however, his head had scarcely
ckiired, when he furiously flew at Mr. Richards' throw, end *add
certainly have stone tom some seHoits mischief. had not that gentle-
man, with great prese7.ce of mind, seized the Wood in his tutu by
the throat, "queering him with all his force between both hands.
This made the wolf relinquish his first attempt. and Mr. Rieharth
only suffered by a bite in his arm and another in his knee, WWII,
on account of the thickness of his clothes, were happily not severe
ones. As for the wolf, be prudently took to his heck, &mid two
of them were still tied together, and being favoured by Pie tin- t
mentary confusion occasioned by his late rent-mare with .Mr. Rich. •
ands, succeeded in escaping his peanut's. He was hued dead
the following day, at the distance of three quartets of a mile Rom •
the ships.
4 in the nth re sere visited by a musical parry of female*, consist-
ing only of a few individuals invited for this purpose. A number of
the officers asse.nibled in the cabin td hear this vocal concert, while
Mr. Henderson and myself took don the notes of their songs, for
which, indeed, they gave mit every opportunity, for I thought they
would never !cave off. We afterwards anius,sl them by our little
hand of flutes and violins, and also be some songs, *kb die whole
of which they were extremely well pleased. I feared several of -
them, and especially Iligliuk, would have gone Into dui with de.
light when we introduced loin our song some of their names min-
glesi with our own. While moat of newel* thus employed, Capt.
Lyon took the opportunity of making desisting* of some of the wt-
men.especially To, ckit.. the prettiest of the petty, and perhaps of the
whole villa-.. She was about six-and-twenty scars of age. with a fars
more oval than that of EINV:IM3U Xin general, very runty eyes and
mouth, teeth rentarkshly white and regular, and poesessisg in her
carriage and manners a 'degree of natural gracefulness which email
not be hid even under the disguise of an Esquimuse woman'.
dress ; and, as was usual with Togolat, the dirtiest face of her whol,
tribe. Her husband. Ewes-at, a little ugly man, of about five-and-
fatty, was the only individual among them laving claim to the
title of Angdtkook, and wax, in reality, a sensible obliging man,
and a find-rate seal-catcher. They had two children ; one of
which, a little girl, Togalat, still occasionally suckled, and, ac-
cording to custom, carried in the hood behind her lodoh.._ the other,
• boy about eight years of age, quite an idea, deaf sad dumb hunt
his birth, and squinting meat horribly with both eyes.
Finding that that poor creatures were nowZly amt of food,
m for the en had again returned from an Munn d reconnect, I was
happy to avail myself of a hint given me by Captain Lyon, to fur-
nish them otcaaionally with a email supply of bread-dust, of which
we had we or three casks in each ship. Our present party was
therefore, in addition to other artieerlifes:eztcrplied with settwal
pounds, which they i. imediately ex . their intention of
taking home to their children. Sew of them visited the shire ,
as usual on the lith, and among du rest, Ka-oong-ut, and Ids son
Toolooak. The old workman was not a favourite with us,
being the only one who Ise yet -began to tense us be
constant begging. We had often expressed displeasure at this
habit, which after a day or two's acquaintance began to be .
extremely troublesome:. but I. had to-day to take cogaissinee
his stealing a nail, of which, though not a very salons offence. I
determines! to take rather a serious notice, as fr might otherwise
lead to more extensive theft. 1 therefore collected all the other
Esquimau% who were on hood, awe having In thak_oressee - •
pressed &rear ind ignition at this conduct. finned the el/Wider neat in
disgrace. Some- of those best acquainted with se were afterwards
taken into the cabin. witere our sentiments were more full)
planned to them. Among these I was not sorry to have T
and Iligliuk„ who would not fail to report at the huts all our pro-
cc:dings, but who did not appear to consider themeelves in
the slightest degree implicated in their fathers' offence, or con.
caned is his disgrace. The people of the huts being such in
want of fond, we ag'tin distributed some bread-dust among them,
taking care to send a portion to the infirm old man, Hik-kei-et:l
by Okotook, the husband of Iligliuk, a fir., active manly fellos
of about two and thirty, who, as we were pleased to find the acne
day, had punctually executed his commission.
We have marked many other interesting parts of this
narrative for selection, but the want of room obliges us t',
trespass for a day to- two on the patience of our readers.
We cannot, however, abstain from extracting the follow-
ing passage, relating to Toulooak, as it tends to shew, the:
notwithstanding all the distressing privations to which they
are liable, and the dreadfully rigorous climate, to the
bitter effects of which they are perpetually exposed. these
savages have yet no disposition or inclination to quit them,
under all the temptations which European civilization
could offer. The scenery around them, desolate and dreary
as it is, has charms for them, for which no acceptable ex-
change of comfort and enjoyment could be offered.
Tonlooak, who now considered himself as quite privileged to
find his way into the cabin without a conductor, and was not back.
ward in thus practising his newly.nequired art of opening and
shutti ig the door, sat with me for a couple of hours on the 18th,
quietly drawing faces aid animals, an occupation to which he took a
great fancy, and we often IrtlVreininded, br this circumstance, of a
similar propensity displayed by his amiable countryman, our !a.
mewed friend, John Starkhouse. We soon found that Toolonak.
?owned a capacity equal to anything he took an interest in Intro-
mg ; and could he, at his present age, have been voluntarily re-
moved tiom his companions, and his attention directed to the ac-
quirement of higher branches of knowledge than that of catching
seals, he would amply hare repaid any pains bestowed upon b.%
education. I had always entertained great objection to taking any
such irdividual from his home, on the doubtful chance of bens.
fitting himself, or of doing any service to the public as an interpre-
ter. My scruples on this held had hitherto been confined to the
consideration due to the individual himself, and to the rels: ins
leaves behind. In our present case, however, not the smallest:public
advantage could be derived front it; for it had long ago becare
evident that we should man kn DIV more of the Esquimaux heiguage
than any of them were likely to learn of English in any rust/nab:a
period of time. I was therefore far from desiring to receive from
Toolonak an answer in the affirmative, when I to-day plainly put
the question to hint, whether he would go with me to Lab/wont;
stiona (European country). Never wax a more decisive negativa
given than Toolomik gave to this proposal. He eagerly repeated the
word Na-o (No) half a dozen times. and then told me, that if ist
wort away his father would cry. This simple but irresistible ap-
peal to paternal affection, his decisive manner of making of it, and
the feelings by which Isis re;dy was evidently dictated, were just
what could have been wished. No more could be necessary to con-
vince those who witnessed it, that these people may justly lay
equal claim with ourselves to these common feel' gs of our nature;
and having once satisfied myself of this, I detennmed never agaih
to excite in Toolonak's mind another disagreeable sersatiou by
talking to him on this subject.
• Sorcerers or wirr.nls, pronounced as written above in Urea-
, land • but at IVinter IslandAroe-w-kseir ; aced by daspeoPle at
Igloc;lik cfm-nat-ko.

KING'S Tit E E.—Tlle extraordinary circum-tence of
six of the principal singers being at this moment serioosly
fll, °blips the managers to repeat the opera of 11 A:4;er-
di Sid::-lid this evening, with the characters differently east ;
(,'urioni playing the Count Almirira, and Plied Firory.
We should not be surprised if this novelty should ilrove In-
tereeting to the tublie, and drew a goed house.
Sir S. Raffles, Governor of Beetgoolen, is on his voyage
home to this country, on account of ill-health.
Private advicea from Madrid, received yesterday by
press, stale that Ferdiratul has been compelled, by the warm
remonstrances of the English and French Ambassadors, to
liberate many of the f'nnetitutionalista who were in con-
finement in Madrid and other large towns, and also Oat
he has, in other respects, observed a more lib, ral policy.
By he last accounts from Carthagena (Colombia) which
are to the 2tth of January, it appears that t'olottel esErp-
bell and Colonei Ilamilton. the British Commissioners to
Colombia, were reckoned to be then within a few day: of
their arrival at Bogota, so that the next Jamaica ?twice:
may be expected to bring information of their amval
that Capitol.
Il'e have seen letters from Gibraltar, Makes, and Cats
to the 11th instant: from the latter port a Spanish aqua.
dron has sailed to cruise. against the Algerin..e ' • and
letters from the other quarters state, that the squitdrookot
English vessels, of Mich,
tached, and of such magnil
captures by the .11gerin..1 •

!t, and other cruisers, arc a* -
nitude. that no alarm respeettu3
vies entertained.