Narrative Of A Voyage To Hudsons Bay In His Majestys Ship Rosamond

Author : Edward Chappell
Publisher : Theclassics.Us
ISBN 13 : 9781230383521
Total Pages : 42 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (835 download)

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Download or read book Narrative of a Voyage to Hudson's Bay; in His Majesty's Ship Rosamond Containing Some Account of the North-Eastern Coast of Americ[a] and of the Tribe written by Edward Chappell and published by Theclassics.Us. This book was released on 2013-09 with total page 42 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1817 edition. Excerpt: ... signifying "eaters of rata flesh /" and they have bestowed this appellation on the maritime Indians, in contempt; as there has always been a most deadly hatred between them. Then again, with a bold dash of his pen, the Abbe' peoples the whole of Hudson s Bay with Esquimaux: whereas, in fact, they occupy but a very small proportion of it, when compared with the vast extent of territory inhabited by the different tribes of Hunting Indians, the inveterate enemies of the Esquimaux. The northern and unexplored parts of the Bay, and the western shore of Labrador, from Cape Diggs to the southward, are alone inhabited by the Jatter; whilst the whole of the western and southern shores are peopled by the former. I know not what could have induced him, also, to describe the Esquimaux as having "the pupil of their eyes yellow, and the iris black: " this is not true; but I suppose that such a supposition may have arisen from that peculiar contraction of the eyelids which has already been noticed in the foregoing part of this Narrative. It is not less absurd to affirm, that "the seal is armed with teeth, to devour those he cannot drown," than to say, that the hare is armed with teeth, to devour those dogs from which she cannot escape; -- the farmer being almost as timi an animal as the latter; and there cannot be much danger from the rage of that monster, who coolly suffers a man to strike him a blow over the nose, which puts an almost immediate end to his existence. I believe Raynal to be very correct in his remarks on the prevalent diseases of the Esquimaux; Esquimaux; but he goes too far, in asserting that "they are generally deprived of sight when young." Sore eyes, indeed, are common amongst them; but there were many old men without this...