The Cadiz sentinel. [volume] (Cadiz, Ohio) 1864-1911, 1866-06-06
NEW SERIES---VOLUME |. NO. 45
AROmance-H0VS an EsquImaux
woman Became the Vile Of
an English NObleman.
From a Paris Paper

IrOH u TaTls Fapefg
Amid these specimens of feminine archa
ology, grouped, as we have said, before tn
windows of the shops, you can not fail t
remark pale young woman, of small stat
ure and expressing herself in English witt
silent accent, which gives to this language
a charm hitherto unknown. a lady Of
certain age and a gentleman who accom-
panies her, do not cease to regard her, and
according to popular expression, ito drinl
her words.
| This young woman, who has bone, fo
six months only, one of the most aristocrat
ic names of the three kingdoms, was called
but short time ago, TOokoolita. Thre
years ago she inhabited with the Esquimaux
her countrymen, the bay Of Ookoylear, call
ed by the English Grinnell's Bay, and whicl
is situated about the sixteenth degree o
north latitude. In place Of the elegan
costume which she now wears with sucf
ease and grace, her attire in her native lane
consisted of vest of seal skin, embroider
ed on the seams with red and white worsteC
in arahesque; a pantoloon, made OF The
same thick material, confined her smal
waist and descended to the knee, leaving tC
be seen. in all their exquisite proportions,
her legs and diminutive feet, cased in boots
of plant red leather Finally, her abun-
dant head of hair, of jet black, was tied
at the top of the head by broad blue band
made of the skin of the Isatis, and colored
by the unctuous juice of certain kind o.
lichen.
An adopted orphan of one of the Tomer
of her tribe, she passed the short summer
under tufii, or tent, made OF the skins o.
the reindeer, and nine months OF the veal
in an igloe. that is to say, i'll house built o
blocks of snow, soldered together by thu
cold, and capped by dome of the SAINT
material. In the center Of this strange
dwelling, a stone lamp, supplied with th'
fat of the seal, burned unintcrruptedly dur
ing nine months of the year-a long anC
dreary night.
The light, among other things, served il
lieu of a fire place for drying her clothes
penetrated by the humid atmosphere, anC
for warming her hands, benumbed by sew
ing in cold twenty degrees below zero, with
needles made of bone, and thread composed
of the sincws of animals.
The Esquimaux have nc other means o.
combating the rigors Of winter. compared
to which ours is but summer. The debris
cast upon these shores by the too frequent
shpwreck of European vessels, are never
burned by the natives for the purpose ol
warming themselves. but are employed by
them in making seighs. In fact they leave
unmolested the numerous heaps of Goa
which Lady franklin has caused to be plac-
ed at different points, in the hope that they
might be of service to her husband, whom
she long believed lost and wandering in
these trOZfn regions.
Three years ago, Lord Frederick Fitz
made as ensign, one of the crew OF the
George Henry, sent in search of Sir John
Franklin. This ship was built expressly tor
this voyage. and was constructed after the
manner of the whale ships; for ship with
high sides cannot navigate these seas with
out great danger.
On the approach of winter the George
Henry was suddenly frozen up in the ice
This m sfortunc produced the most serious
inQuirtude, the more so, as the stores OF the
ship were getting short, being now reduced
to tainted salt meat and the uncertain chan
ceS of the chase.
One day, or rather one night-for in winter
the night reigns for nine months in the Bay
of Ookovlear, young girl, in sleig drawn
by twelve dogs. came on the ice alongside
the George Henry, climbed with uncommon
agility to the deck Of the ship, and commen-
ced examining, with the greatest curiosity,
'the great wooden house Of the stran-
gers. After having visited every corner, she
perceived Sir Frederick stretched upon the
Captains bed. Tears came to her eyes at
the sight of the poor young man, about to
die without hope of relief She immediate
ly proposed by gesture to take the young
man with her, and to nurse him at her own
house. The officers eagerly accepted this
chance of relief for eircompanion, improb-
able as his cure seemed to be, aiding Too
koolita this was her name) toremove Fred
erick to the sleigh of the kind hearted girl.
She gave the signal for starting to the
dogs by peculiar slapping of the tongue
against the roof of the mouth, and drove
rapidly away with the ensign. Having ar
rived at her home after two hours ride,
she entered few minutes after with wood
en- vase filed with the blood of the sea-calf.
To her great surprise Frederick refused this
singular drink. However, he soon over
came his repugnance, and found it excel
lept." This is his own expression in the
volume he has published of his voyage
He partook every day, not only without dis
taste, but even with avidity, of this medica-
ment, and he self his strength return so fast
that, in three months after, dressed in the
custom of the natives, he rivaled them dar-
ing and address, in driving sleigh, chas-
ing the sea- calves, sealing the rocks, and
away birds nests across shoals and
broken ice, not to mention that ht managed
in the most intrepid manner, with single
oar, his long narrow bark made Of skins,
and called Rias.
Tookoolita accompanied him in all these
excursions and did not quit him for mo-
ment. Endowed with the marvellous facili
tv of the people of the North in acquiring
foreign languages, she not only spoke Eng
lish purely, but, thanks to the lessons OF
Frederick, she read and wrote it. About the
month of April following, the George Hen
ry was disengaged from the ice which envi-
roned her, and began to prepare tor weigh
ing anchor and returning to Eng land
When Tookoolita learned this news she re-
tired to her tupic Of reindeer sSlns, pitch
ed on the sea shore. Frederick came to
her aud found her bathed in tears. Sister
said he, for he called her habitually by this
name, Sister, my mother expects you in
England come.
Tookoolita dried her tears gave him her
hand and accompanied hlm without heslia-
ton, on board the George Henry, which ar
rived unexpectedly three months after in
England.
Some time after that, Lady Fitz--, who
did not quit the young stranger for mo-
ment, still prettier with the ESropean than
in her native custome, presented her to
Queen Victoria as her future daughter-in-
law.
The Queen declared that she would sign
with her own hands the marriage contract
between the officer Of marines and Tcokoo-
lita. 'In the mean time" added she,
smiling, "as this name.is little strange, |
ask of my young friend to renounce it and
take that of Victoria.
Tookooita, now Lady Fitz--, may be seen
every day promenading in the Paiais Royal,
offering the singular spectacle OF an Esqui-
n .l.sk La H. oe -. a.. -.