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Identifier: Journalsecondvo00Parr (find matches)
Title: Journal of a second voyage for the discovery of a north-west passage from the Atlantic to the Pacific : performed in the years 1821-22-23, in His Majesty's ships Fury and Hecla, under the orders of Captain William Edward Parry : illustrated by numerous plates
Year: 1824 (1820s)
Authors: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Lyon, G. F. (George Francis), 1795-1832, ill Finden, Edward Francis, 1791-1857, engraver Melville, Robert Saunders Dundas, Viscount, 1771-1851, dedicatee
Subjects: Parry, William Edward, Sir, 1790-1855 Fury (Ship) Hecla (Ship) Natural history Eskimos Inuit
Publisher: London : John Murray
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library

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on among them, and used not only by the children, but by thegrown-up people at some of their games. They sometimes serrate theedges of two strips of whalebone and whirl them round their heads, just asboys do in England to make the same peculiar humming sound. They willdispose one piece of wood on another, as an axis, in such a manner thatthe wind turns it round like the arms of a wind-mill; and so of many othertoys of the same simple ki nd. These are the distinct property of the children,who will sometimes sell them while their parents look on, without interferingor expecting to be consulted. When not more than eight years old, the boys are taken by their fathers ontheir sealing excursions, where they begin to learn their future business; andeven at that early age, they are occasionally intrusted to bring home a sledgeand dogs from a distance of several miles over the ice. At the age of elevenwe see a boy with his water-tight boots and mocassins, a spear in his hand, * Crantz, I. 176.
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OF A NORTH-WEST PASSAGE. 531 and a small coil of line at his back, accompanying the men to the fishery,under every circumstance; and from this time his services daily increasein value to the whole tribe. On our first intercourse with them we supposed*that they would not unwillingly have parted with their children, in conside-ration of some valuable present, but in this we afterwards found that wewere much mistaken. Happening one day to call myself Toolooaksaitata (father,) and pretend that he was to remain with me on board theship, I received from the old man, his father, no other answer than whatseemed to be very strongly and even satirically implied, by his takingone of our gentlemen by the arm and calling him his son; thus intimatingthat the adoption which he proposed was as feasible and as natural as myown. The custom of adoption is carried to very great lengths among thesepeople, and served to explain to us several apparent inconsistencies with re-spect to their relationships. Th

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