Cleveland daily leader. [volume] ([Cleveland, Ohio]) 1865-1873, 1866-05-26
ROMANCE.
AN EsQuimaux Woman Became
the Wife of an English NObIemRn.
rFrop a parf. pan.r

How an Esquimeux Woman Became
the Wife of an English NObIemRn.
tFrom a Paris Paper
Amid these specimens of feminine ar
chRelogy, grouped, as we have said, be-
fore the windows of the shops, you cannot
fail to remark a pale young woman, of
small stature, and expressing herself in
English with a silent accent, which gives
to this language a charm hitherto un-
known. A lady Of certain age and a gen
tleman, who accompanies her, do not cease
to regard her, and, according to a popular
expression, "to drink her words"
This young woman, who has borne, for
six months only, one of the most aristo-
cratic names of the three Kingdoms, was
called, but a short time ago, Tookoolits.
Three years ago she inhabited with the
Esquimaux, her countrymen, the Bay of
Ookovlear called by the English Grinnells
Bay, and which is situated about the six
tieth degree of north latitude. In the
place of the elegant costume which she
now wears with such ease and grace, her
attire in her native land consisted of a
vest of seal skin, embroidered on the
seams with read and white worsted in ara
basque; a pantaloon of the same thick
material, confined her small waist and de-
scended to the knee, leaving to be seen, in
all their exquisite proportions, her legs
and d~iminutiye feet, cased in boots of
plant red leather. Finally, her abundant
hair, of a Jet black, was tied at the top OF
the head by q broad blue band, made Of
the skin of the Isatis, and colored by the
unctuous Juice of a certain kind Of lin
chen. 1- Oh
Anadopted orphan of one of the women
Of her tribe, she passed the short summer
ander a ttsftL or tent made of the skins of
the reindeer, and nine months Of the year
in an tgLoe, that is to say, in a house built
of blocks Of snow, soldered together by
the cold, and capped by a dome of the
same material. In the center Of this
strange dwelling, a stone lamp, supplied
with the fat of the seal, burned uninter-
ruptedly during nine months of the year
"a long and dreary night.
The light among other things, served
in lieu ola ireplacefo for drying her clothes,
penetrated by the humid atmosphere, and
for warming her hands, benumbed by
sewing in a cold twenty degrees below
zero, with needles made of bone, and
thread composed of the sinews of animals.
The Esquimaux have no other means of
combating the rigors Of a winter, com-
pared TO which ours is but summer. The
debris cast upon these shores by the too
frequent shipwreck of European vessels,
are never burned by the natives for the
purpose of warming themselves, but are
employed by them in making sleighs. In
fact they leave unmolested the numerous
heaps of coal which Lady Franklin has
caused to be placed at different points in
the hope that they might be of service to
her husband, whom she long believed lost
and wandering in these frozen 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 ex-
pressly for this voyage, and was construct
cd after the manner of the whale ships;
for a ship with high sides cannot navi-
gate these sess without great danger. +,
On the approach of winter the George
Henry was suddenly frozen up in the
ice. This misfortune produced the most
serious inquietude, the moro so, as the
stores Of the chip were getting short, be-
ing now reduced to tainted salt meat and
the uncertain character of the chase.
One day, or rather one night-for IN :
winter the night reigns for nine months
in the Bay of Ookovlear-a young girl, in
a sleigh drawn by twelve dogs, came on
the ice alongside the George Henry,
with uncommon agility 10 the
deck of the ship, and commenced exam
ming, with the greatest curiosity, /" the l
great wooden house" Of the strangers.
After having visited every conner, she
perceived Sir Frederick stretched upon
the Captains bed. Tears came to her 1
eyes at the sight of the poor young man,
about to die without hope Of relief. She !,
Immediately proposed by gesture to take +.
the young man with her, and to nurse
him at her own house. The officers ca :
gerly accepted this chance of relief for
their companion, improbable as his cure :
to be, aiding Tookoolita this was 8
her name to remove Frederick to the s
sleigh of the knd-hearted girl
She gave the signal for starting to the I
logs BY a peculiar slapping of the tongue :
the roof of the mouth, and drove I
away with the ensign. Having !
at her home, after a two hours !
she entered a few minutes after with
wooden vase filled with the blood of the
ea-calf. To her great surprise Frederick
this singular drink. However, he I
DON overcome bis repugnance, and found
t excellent This is his own expression o
n the volume he has published of his o
'oyage. He pRrtOok every day, not only
distsste, but even with avidity, P
f this medicament and he felt his strength
eturn so fast that, in three months after, n
rcssed in the costume of the natives, he
them in daring and address, IN OF
a sleigh, chasing the ~sea-ealves,
ealing the rocks and carrying away birds :
ests across shoals and broken ice, not to :
lention that he maHaged in the most in :
-epid manner, With q single oar, his long, /
arrow bark, made of skins, and called a Il
Iias. Tookoolits accompanied him in all ~
lese excursions and did not quit him for in
moment. Endowed with the marvel II
Jus facility of the people Of the North "
/ acquiring foreign languages, she not pr
My spoke English purely, but thanks to at
he lessons of Frederick, she read and O,
-rote it. About the month of April fol-
the George Henry was disengaged =
ON the ice which environed her and be- 20
an to prepare. for weighing anchor and
stunning to England. When Tookoolita
this newt she retired to her tupic =
! reindeer skinA, pitched on the sea-
ar h.tbed in tear aS;sta-S ssiJ bo fo- Gel
3 called her hsbitually By this name, 5o
my mother expects you in Eng be
nd-come.p ~ tai
Tookoolita dried DER tears, gave him la,
n hand, and accompanied him without lar
on board the George Henry, !
hich arrived unexpectedly three months
ter in England -FHize77 10 ~
Soma time aftAr tbat I'd, T;E-
no did not quit the young stranger for -
moment still Prettier with the Euro 4
than in her native costume, pre- \
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