The British Press; or, Morning Literary Advertiser.
London, England, 1818-12-17 00:00:00

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SHOCIONG ACCIDENT.

Au inquisition was taken yesterday afternoon, at the Coal-
mine? Room of St. Olava's Work hunse, Parish-street, before
THOMAS Sart:eon, Esq. Coroner, on the body of Air. Jo.
mph Oran., the miller of Alesars Barclay, Pe►kins, and Cu.
who was killed in the shuckiug manner detailed below.
Jahn Kendall deposed, that the &teemed atteuded to the
salt-mill at the brew-house in Hunev.lane, Southwark,
which was irmked by a Meant engine. On Monday, nl ore
o'clock, the wally:, and a her of other iwrsosis employ-
ed in the malt-rooms, went home to get their dismay,. and
left the deceased doing something at the machines y the
mill. They returned about two o'clock, and (-mild not find
the deceased say where shout the place ; they waited for an
boor, suppossuy that he had goose home, and then it uceur-
►ed 10 some of them that he might have met with sonic ac-
cident, they lighted a candle and dist-torer, ! that while he
was, oiling the machinery he had unfortunately got cowl.
gird with the cog-whirls, and was drawn between them. He
lay dead under the machinery. Ills hand. were literally torn
ulf, his bead was beat in, sod bit body was toys in several
places.
The deceased. it appeared, should have rung s hell before
he began to oil the se heels, isiid the engineer would have stop-
ped the ensigns,. lli. inv,rudence coat bins his life.
Venturi-6' The deceased came to his death by accident,
In the atomiser described by the witnesses"

THE NEwLY-DIscoVAKED NATION.

[FROM A CORRESPONDVATI

The information we khan obtain from the Work
which is promised us from the pin of (.:opt,
will he most important. In the mein time, 14 few
observation•, founded upon is co:,versation with Se-
weld of the persons who ace pinned the Expetli-
tioii, may tiot he

It is quite clear, that, 'won a part of the Northern Coast
of the flay, which there was no previous rtosoit to suppose
was inhabited, stern or eight persons were seen and con-
versed with The intercourse was carried on through the
medium of John Sarkheuuse, an F.,quiniailx, also accom-
panied the ships through the whole of thcirvayage.

Thil John fni ckheuurse is described, by all the persons on
huaril,tu have proved himctlf, during the voyagt•, an euter.
prising and intelligent nom _ _

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Hi, OWII hidury is err att nal, haying been fiend far at sett,
in hi• CA line, driven out by the amid, RIO $1111(111 he hail pi IM
been picked up by une of our ships lie insist have
perished.
We hare seen same of the pith'''. s down by Sarldwunse,
as a represenlatinn of his first interview with these new.y.

discovered inhabitants of the North, um th. y
descrilwtl, perhaps better than he cool.' du in ourils, the
mei ling as it took place.
The natives are *hewn in their sledges. drawn by time
Sarlheduse lisivi%elf is depicted till the ler, %t ling up
a pule with a flag opine it, lu which were emu heil some
heads and tither tittles, intro& d as conciliatory mei:roils.
The dress of She tiatives of a slits, cuvrriliz the
holly a• far as the lulus, and lireielies of the same material,
nisitioeil so as to inert She body covert's?. A sin ill spare
which the flesh is seed) is &were. il in all the lizores
tat this pal t, %hese the upper awl lower coveriligs meet, aria.
life 6'olll their impeded mode of attaChillg tluw to each
to her.

la these drawings the Astonishment of the astiv.s.
examining the differetit parte .4 the vessel, is very risiiric-
terisileally depicted. One of them is viewint the anchor,
another the mast., and the tenances very faithfully de-
eeribe the Fur prier I.Cenfillll43l by these lifer objects vicinn.
In questioning 8 trk kroner upon some 'mints .4 the inter-
view, hest:nil. abe isslieus te, have appe,r..l .hieile, mid sraily
to give such Ml....yawn's as be was desirous ..f °Wanting
fr them.

His language was aufficiently anelogirua to theirs, to al.
low of keeping up a conversation with them; hr
amongst other waiters, as to Ille or 114,1 r nal Mil. but
they seen, either to hare tie id..i of number, or. %hat is
more probable, no corresponding term, by which they could
reply to the inquiry.
Their general conduct gave reason to 'oppose that they
had, like their more fortunate discoverers, hired principles
of social conduct. When chips wire thrown over the vessel's
side upon the ice, each tolleetvil ns
no one appeared to infringe limos the bundle of another.
He who hail gathered any little stork, seemed to he rem.
tinted as the prnpnetur, although be left it to proceed in his
further collection.

11 is not very astonishing that they endeavoured to appro-
priate some of the objects of wonder slab they saw aI t
the resat Is, but tbrir very mode of attempting to pilfer was
• proof that they had not acquited dexterity by practice.
In a few inslastres they took articles flout the ship, with a
view to pnrloining them, but they were necessarily mow-
er/4M, for they du.; mit understand concealment ; some part
of the pilfered properly bein: always left uncovered, and in
sight.
The circumstance which excited the must attention on the
part of the discoverers was the finding in the poss.-mom of
!hr natures knives, the blade part of which was of Irmo.
They hail already ascertained that w I was unknown to
these newly-found beings, and that the only fuel who Is they
had, if fm I it could be called, was n species of noos—situ
the use made of this moss seemed be confined to the nip.
ping it iss oil, nod burning Una a touch ur candle.
Through the mrulinni of Sackheinise, however. .1 was ulis.
covered that two blocks of iron, its its pore slate, situated.
at so great distance from the shore, were known to the its.
lives, and that fur making their knives they hammered off
pieces of it by means of heavy stones.

One of these knives we have seen. 11 is formed of a piece
of bone shout six or seven inches long ; the upper part, to
which the iron is attached, beiug grooved In this groove
several irregular shaped pieces of iron are inserted.
These appear to base twee beaten flat with stones, and RN
they present an irregular serrated edge, it should rather be
called a saw than a knife.

The hone handle smells insiarrahly *teen: of rancid MI,
from the meliorated stage in which it has beta t..d. snit
every common means to discharge this taint lass brim tinstic-
ersstully attempted.
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hkewiw seen one of their spears. It convicts of
several pieces of the born of the sea unicorn, li. d together
with thongs of skin ; about • third f. l6r ens: is 4 stop
for the thumb to press agsinat in the on nil; it. Thi,, 14km
the knife, is of .... at rude contrivance. It is not PVCII straight
in its form, but is curvilinear This partakes of the same
offensive smell as the knife handle.

Their principal fowl consists of bird:, of which it appoors
the smother so wi.ionollsOor. Throw Uiy .ii raw. Tlw
of orals moil of the sca unicorn is also a p:sit of Ilu it wow.
rishment.

Unlike the Esrptimaux of the coax of A owlet., they have
no canoe■. nor di,' tht y •••rm u, know the 18Se Vf vestarls of
any •i sci !pi 1111 l ; and if• they•:a torn. a 'list tact i•eprirate
lion from 11 at of the world, they are probably the moot
onrivihreil , all the eartli'a ialsalsitanic

On Nom, the discovery vs-saris were several slogs, *pint-
trio ly oldie brevet rough wiry hair, fox face, and
hopilty lail, bring the principal charactrri.tiet They ilo out
hark, inn in common make any particular tallow.
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The only dog which Captam Ross obtained from Ilic na-
tivia is sinned to have been lost overboard. in a gale of wind.
off Cape Farewell; but from the description given of it, it
was not unlike (although larger in sire) tlw dogs which were
brought fioui the coast of a inure southern latitude.
Its our of the drawings bef.-u, uncmtunud, John Such-
browse, the Filquirnaux, is repn.wnttd troll his arm in a
slum, and upon aNkisig the t.ito,r, hr stetvil that it was done
by the COOCIVO4IOII Of a limbo,: po.c• , whirl. he hid loaded
upon the principle of o the more hike more shoutee;" by
the blow his collar-hone was broken.

Hr had never lenrat to draw wilt it be pot ill paper the
subject,. he limy deliiiried, boo hi. repicarsilation 6n. Aruba.
bey a more faithful re,ensitiriiiec t.. the -reise he describes,
fruits Its very rod' ors., Ilion the mere tio.shed draw/tugs of
our officers would possess.