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Title: The frozen zone and its explorers; a comprehensive record of voyages, travels, discoveries, adventures and whale-fishing in the Arctic regions for one thousand years
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hyde, Alexander, 1814-1881 Baldwin, Abraham Chittenden, 1804-1887, joint author Gage, William Leonard, 1832-1889, joint author Shields, Charles W. (Charles Woodruff), 1825-1904
Subjects: Kane, Elisha Kent, 1820-1857 Polaris (Ship)
Publisher: Hartford, Conn. (etc.) Columbia book company
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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men whom he had sentto collect floats. The orders for embarking were in-stantly countermanded, and we went with a party ofmen to their rescue. We soon met our people return-ing at a slow pace, and learned that they had comeunawares upon the Esquimaux party, which consistedof six men, with their women and children, who weretraveling towards the rapid with a considerable num-ber of dogs canyi 11 g their baggage. The womenhid themselves on the first alarm, but the men ad-vanced, and stopping at some distance from our men,began to dance in a circle, tossing up their hands inthe air and accompanying their motions with muchshouting, to signify, I conceive, their desire of peace.Our men saluted them by pulling off their hats, andmaking bows, but neither party was willing to ap-proach the other; and, at length, the Esquimaux re-tired to the hill, from whence they had descendedwhen first seen. ^ We proceeded m the hope of gaining an interviewwith them, but lest our appearance in a body should
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FEAIN^KLIN S FIEST LAIS^D EXPEDITION. 201 alarm them, we advanced in a long line, at the headof which was Augustus. We were led to their bag-gage, which they had deserted, by the howling of thedogs; and on the summit of the hill we found, lyingbehind a stone, an old man, who was too infirm to ef-fect his escape with the rest. He was much terrifiedsvhen Augustus advanced, and probably expected im-mediate death; but that the fatal blow might not beunrevenged, he seized his spear, and made a thrustwith it at his supposed enemy. Augustus, however,easily repressed his feeble effort, and soon calmed hisfears by presenting him with some pieces of iron, andassuring him of his friendly intentions. On the 17th, nine Esquimaux appeared on the bankof the nver opposite the encampment, carrying theircanoes on their backs, but they fied on seeing thetents. Not only were these people alarmed, but theIndians also were so terrified that they insisted on re-turning the next day; nor could Franklin induc

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