erest to be familiar, and which, long before we left them,
any child could repeat, though in their own style of pronunciation.

Besides the natural authority of parents and husbands, these people
appear to admit no kind of superiority among one another, except a
certain degree of superstitious reverence for their _angetkooks_, and
their tacitly following the counsel or steps of the most active
seal-catcher on their hunting excursions. The word _nallegak_, used in
Greenland to express "master," and "lord" in the Esquimaux translations
of the Scriptures, they were not acquainted with. One of the young men
at Winter Island appeared to be considered somewhat in the light of a
servant to Okotook, living with the latter, and quietly allowing him to
take possession of all the most valuable presents which he received from
us. Being a sociable people, they unite in considerable numbers to form
a settlement for the winter; but on the return of spring they again
separate into several parties, each appearing to choose his own route,
without regard to that of the rest, but all making their arrangements
without the slightest disagreement or difference of opinion that we
could ever discover. In all their movements, they seem to be actuated by
one simultaneous feeling that is truly admirable.

Superior as our arts, contrivances, and materials must unquestionably
have appeared to them, and eager as they were to profit by this
superiority, yet, contradictory as it may seem, they certainly looked
upon us in many respects with profound contempt; maintaining that idea
of self-sufficiency which has induced them, in common with the rest of
their nation, to call themselves, by way of distinction, Innue, or
mankind. One day, for instance, in securing some of the gear of a
sledge, Okotook broke a part of it, composed of a piece of our white
line, and I shall never forget the contemptuous sneer with which he
muttered in soliloquy the word "Kabloona!" in token of the inferiority
of our materials to his own. It is happy, perhaps, when people,
possessing so few of the good things of this life, can be thus contented
with the little allotted them.

The men, though low in stature, are not wanting in muscular strength in
proportion to their size, or in activity and hardiness. They are good
and even quick walkers, and occasionally bear much bodily fatigue, wet,
and cold, without appearing to suffer by it, much less to complain of
it. Whatever labour th