Arctic researches (20340192831)

Title: Arctic researches, and life among the Esquimaux; being the narrative of an expedition in search of Sir John Franklin, in the years 1860, 1861, and 1862
Identifier: arcticresearche00hall (find matches)
Year: 1865 (1860s)
Authors: Hall, Charles Francis, 1821-1871
Subjects: Franklin, John, 1786-1847; Eskimos
Publisher: New York, Harper & Brothers
Contributing Library: Smithsonian Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: Biodiversity Heritage Library



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178 ARCTIC RESEARCH EXPEDITION. "King's Cape," at a place called by Esquimaux Se-ko-se-lar* This man's name was Koo-choo-ar-choo,but known by us as " Sampson,"
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THE GEOEGB HENRY IN WINTER QUARTERS. from his great size and strength. He was large and muscular, five feet six inches high, and weighing over 200 lbs. He was famous, too, as a great hunter, and had even captured whales by himself ) with only the aid of a boy ! When he visited us, his pretty little daughter PuJc-e-ne-yer, of about ten years old, accompanied him, and I was much amused with the nimble way in which she undid and then rebraided her hair. The use of a comb she did not know until I gave her one and showed her. As for the fa- ther, I found him very intelligent, and, through Tookoolito, who acted as my interpreter, he gave me much geographical informa- tion. Another of our visitors was Puto, the mother of a white child. * From various sketches drawn for me by Esquimaux, I concluded Se-ko-se-lar to be a place on the north side of Hudson's Strait, near a large bay as yet undiscov- ered by white men. This bay is somewhere between the longitudes 72° and 75° west, making far up, due north, and abounding in seals, walrus, white whales, and the Mysticeti, or Greenland whales.