Worcester daily spy., 1851-10-10
THE DAILY S Ply.


expedition has been prepared by an officer on boarc
the Rescue. The following interesting account
some of the incidents of the voyage will be reac
with eager interest. We copy from the ": Z
!, Times.
The race of people who inhabit the country ada
cent to Bains Bay and its tributaries are so little
KNOWN that anything in relation to them is caught
up with avldity. This arrival furnishes US with a
sight of some of their distinctive characteristics in
dress and otherwise. The dress of a married lady
Is composed of pair of short seal skin pants fur
outside, extending nearly to the knee Joint where
! 1t meets the legs of the boots, made Of the same
material or OF deer-skin. The upper part OF the
person Is covered with '' Jumper - or a kind Of
sack with hood for the head and sleeves, made
whole with the exception of place for the face and
arms. This also is made of seaI-skin or deer-skip
and IN the warmer weather is covered with fancy
colored, cotton, cloth sack. In the coldest and wet
weather the cloth sack is removed and seal-skn
covering, without fur, placed in its stead. This
composes their whole dress. The dress of an un-
married lady is distinguished by a broad band.
made of fancy figured ebbing, about two and half
inches wde sewed on each side of the front of their
pants, extending nearly the whole length of them.
married woman can also be distinguished from
an unmarried one by the hair, which in both cases
Is tied upon the top of The head and the ends of
that OF the married are coored blue, and of the un-
married red. This enables gallant to act the ami
able without any danger of making advances to some
one already married, and getting stray shot from
an injured husband. The boots are made very neat
| y, slender and well proportioned The upper lea
thGr Is coored. They tan deer-skns with urine
and their seal-skins are dressed in beautiful man
ner, simply by drying and rubbing them with a
smooth stone. A pair of slippers complete the
wardrobe OF lady IN the Esquimaux country: these
are made Of deer-skn, and neatly fringed round the
! tops with white rabbits fur The clothing which
which was shown US made in a very TASTY and
strong MANNER every thread used being made of
the snews of the deer, and of course very durable
The dresses Of the married males are very simiay
10 the married ladies, with the exception that they
are longer and rather heavier The Danes are scat
tered about the Esquimaux, and furnish them with
what few foreign articles they may want which are
limited to steel for their spears and some few orna
ments Tor their dresses and cooring for their hair
and LADIES' boots. The seal furnishes them with al
most everything they to require-food clothing
and even fuel.
hyacs - are kind Of boat used by this peo-
pie, and are, certainly, very curious affairs four of
which were brought in the Advance I'hey are
made by stretching sea-skins over light frame
work OF wood, shaped very much like fattened
cigar, both ends being very sharp, with hole in the
top about IA inches in diameter The whole length
OF boat Is about II feet by IA inches in width, and
eight deep in the centre Iha ~ @' ms
legs and Iiast 'rrrs legs lengthways. Will r. VI ine
hips up is outside. This part Of The n1 hn rom his
cred with seal-skin, made the same ~ Dooy IS Gov
er, . and lashed with drawing strings, at tfeaihp-
tom, to rim round the aperture in the boat The
boatman propels his craft with double bladed pad
die, about feet in length, made of light wood,
and slightly made, the main part but about l 1-2 or
inches in diameter, and the blades inches wide
and ornamented with ivory. With this he moves
his boat through the water, at very rapid rate. By
deXterous movement with his oar, an expert boat
man will completely turn bis boat over, and come
up the opposite side still retaining his accustom-
ed situation. In this fragile vessel he pursues his
avocatiOn ot sPearing seals in the toughest weather.
for which purpose he has a barbed spear several
inches long, made of steel and very sharp, which is
attached to ivory point about eight inches in
length, the whole to staff seven or eight feet in
length and IL inches in diameter TO the steelis
attached line, forty feet in length, made of the
hide of Walrus, and this Is fastened to a bladder
made of the skin of a seal and filled with air Law
ing the after part of the boat. When the spear
enters the SEAL 1t is arranged so that it disengages
itself fom the ivory point, by the point slipping at
the instant from the stafs, but is attached BY
string and floats with it, while at the same time
the bladder to which the line is attached is thrown
overheard, preventing the seal from sinking any fur
ther than the length of the line the staff and seal
then recovered at his eizure. For killing water
fowl, of which there are but few, sharp, round
spear is used attached to pole seven feet in length.
These spears are thrown with astonishing accuracy
rarely, if ever missing their mark. Another man-
ner, and the easiest by far of spearing the SEAL is
by doing it through hole in the ice where they
come up 20 breathe they will frequently scratch
holes through the ice from the under side where it
is several feet hick to get fresh air the natives are
accustomed to the noise made by scratching and will
hear them long distance and watch for them, and
as soon as they make their appearance they are at
once killed and secured. The officers of the Ad-
vance, also brought with them several Esquimaux
dogs. These animals are very dociIe and peaceable
in their disposition, allowing any one to handle them
familiarly, but they may have changed somewhat in
their disposition by.being confined long on board
vessel filed with civilized people their appetites
are very voracious, eating at one meal as much as
would satisfy three common American dogs. Their
> appearance at first sight reminds of the wolf,
having similar head, mouth ard ears their feet
and tail are also similar to rairie wolf, but the
ewes are brighter and have more intelligent express
sion (if the term may be used) than the wolf, or
lany other animal of the kind. Their size is that Of
small, weset bulldog, and very heavy One Of
them on board of the Advance Ga female) has lcAg
strait hair, of a brownish white, tail the same an
other, (mae) on the back and sides and head is
black, and the other parts the same as the female,
but the hair is shorter, They are very strong, and
we witnessed one of them break good sized chord
which he was tied with, without appearing to exert
himself much in the effort.
Another great curiosity is the skin of a white bear
killed by one of the officers, which measures eight
feet nine inches from tip to tip. The foot of this
bear measures twentyone inches in length including
the claws and about fifteen inches wide and the
Iwesht was about 1900 pounds. He was killed