San Antonio daily light. [volume] (San Antonio, Tex.) 1886-1907, 1889-06-20
HUSKIE WHALE HUNTERS.
HOW THEY KILL THE lEVlATHAN
AND THEN BLOW HIM UP.
The First White Men to Visit Liverpool
Pay--Unpieasant Ways of Testing Cour-
ace-The Huskie women-Facts Cleaned
from Lord Lonsdale's Note Book.

from Lord Lonsdale's Note Book.
The reporter took the note book and
Cleaned the following facts: ION Aug. 2"
writes Lord Lonsdale, 1--WE determined TO
make trip to Liverpool bay. l persuaded
a Huskie to put on civilized clothes and TO
take out his 'taberettes, with view of dis
guising himself. (The taberettes are two
pieces of serpentine, shaped like buttons
one very large and one small. The larger
one is worn on the left of the under lip, close
up to the mouth, and the smaller one on the
other side. The Indians prize them very
highly and value them at $50 each.) The
clothes he put on l had given him before
hand as payment for guiding us to the Huskie
settlement. As we rounded the point into
Liverpool bay | hoisted the Union Jack
and my white ensign, and my man hoisted
the Hudson Bay companys flag, and thus be-
decked we sailed around the point and into
full view of the wooden and canvas town OF
the Huskiewaux, distant about five miles.
A ROYAL WELCOME.
1--WE no sooner hove in sight than l saw
with the glasses all the Huskies come flock
ing down to the beach. Four men put out in
kiacks to meet us as an advance guard.
Three of them were armed with bows and
arrows and knives, and the fourth carried
fan About 400 yards behind them came
fully 300 others We could see that there
was great commotion among them As we
advanced so did the kiacks, but when we
were 800 yards from them they suddenly
stopped padding and would not come any
nearer. l called and hailed, but all to no
purpose. | saw they were distrustful SO
told our Huskie to hail them.
"As soon as he spoke they recognized his
voice, and l halloed: 'To-go-to-chi-nack' 1.-THE
nearest approach | can get to spelling the
chiefs nance, when they readily came up to
us, followed by the others. We were now
about 100 yards from the shore, and to take
time | lowered the sail and made the men
pull. Our Huskie now told them who and
what was, and made them a long speech,
and sent them off to tell the others, which
they instantly did, apparently in great
glee. We went slowly on purpose, to
give them good chance of having a
talk with their pals. There were about rs
men and $50 women and children new wait
ing for us to land We no sooner touched
the beach than jumped out and shook hands,
having taken care previously, however, to
load my revolver and put it in my pocket. !
The chief was named Ta-wah-tsack and his
sub Kagley. The former was well built
big man, with an active gait, diabolical
countenance and aeshy eyelids, which left
only tiny holes through which his black, i'll
tempered eyes peered. But he was very civil
and said he was glad TO see me. The mos
quitOes Were so troublesome that | asked him
to conduct me to the 'KiShawa,' when he dis
appeared, returning in two minutes arrayed
in his robe of state and accompanied by his
three wives, in similar array. He then led
the way, and Kagley, Billy and | followed
him. Billy stayed only few moments in
the council chamber, as the atmosphere did
not seem to suit him.
After waiting few minutes about seven,
" or eighty natives arrived, all in their best
clothes and beads. Kagley and our friend
whom was now told were the councillors,
and more respected than the present chief
then came in in very smart clothes When
the room was full the chief made a speech to
which all listened with marked attention.
He told them $50 | learned through our inter
prefer, himself Huskie, taken from his tribe
when boy by the Hudson Bay company
that the chief told them to welcome us; that
we we're the first white men who had ever
visited them. He had heard that white men
were brave but if they are so brave con-
tinued he, how is it that they have not come
to us before' STILL said he, 4 think they
must be brave, and we will try them They
then showed us how a man was killed by
them. Four men seized the victim. Two
held him by the shoulders another placed his
hands against his back and the fourth pulled
his head back, when another man would draw
a knife across his throat, and all was over"
CAPTURING THE WHALES.
The Husliies then tried to intimldate Lord
Lonsdaie by rushing at him with their knives
and then putting their hands over his heart to
feel it beat. While in the middle of this ia
teresting performance" said Lord Lonsdale,
I'VE heard a man calling 'Hoo-roo-e-e-ooor
Tor that is what it sounded like to me-, which
Immediately threw everybody into confusion
Everybody rushed out, and the chief called
upon me to follow. The interpreter told me
we were going to whale hunt.
"The cry still came at intervals, ami ]
found out afterward it came from senti
nels who had been placed to watch for the
coming of the white whale. The Indians wait
until they come into the shadows, and then
attack them.
THE chief put his two young wives and
myself into an O-me-ach "a large fat bot
toned boat made out whale skins, and we
rowed in the direction of the cry. The wo
men are not allowed to put their foot into a
kack, because of an Indian superstition which
says that the art of hunting leaves the man
who owns the kiack if such thing should
happen.
I'VE all rounded the corner in silence and
there moving I'D toward the shadows We're
ten white whales. The Indians in their XII