an hour, and then returned
in high glee to their huts. They were highly delighted with the tones
of the organ, as with the songs of the seamen and music of every
description. They were very ingenious in employing such materials as
they had at their disposal. A sledge being required to carry a lad to
some distance, one of them set to work, and in a short time cut out of
ice a serviceable little sledge, hollowed like a bowl, and smoothly
rounded at the bottom. The thong to which the dogs were secured was
fixed to a groove cut round its upper edge. Among the women was one
named Iliglink, the mother of a lad called Toolooak, who had frequently
come on board. She was a superior person, of great natural talent. Her
voice was soft; she had an excellent ear for music, and a great fondness
for singing. It was somewhat difficult, indeed, when she once began, to
stop her. She made beautiful models of canoes, sledges, and other
articles; but she showed her superior intelligence by the readiness with
which she communicated her knowledge of the geographical outline of the
sea-coast of the country and of the islands. Several sheets of paper
were placed before her, and she drew roughly, on a large scale, an
outline of the land about Repulse Bay and Lyon Inlet, continuing it
northerly to the present winter station of the ships. Sheet after sheet
was tacked on until she had completely lost sight of Winter Island, at
the other end of the table. She afterwards drew, on a smaller scale,
with wonderful accuracy, a chart embracing a much wider extent of coast.
With intense interest it was found that she drew the extreme northern
boundary of America, or rather its north-east extremity, round which
Captain Parry had received instructions to proceed, if possible.

The armourer's forge especially attracted her attention, and she
expressed great astonishment at seeing two pieces of iron welded
together. She was rather spoiled, however, by the attention paid her,
and seemed to claim as a right her privilege of coming on board whenever
she pleased.

Early in April some of the tribe deserted their habitations, proceeding
to the westward in search of food, and at the end of May the whole party
announced that they were about to migrate to the northward. On
receiving what they considered the most valuable presents from the
commander, the women broke into such immoderate fits of laughter as to
be almost hysterical, finishing by bursting i