Life with the Esquimaux: The Narrative of Captain Charles Francis Hall of the Whaling Barque "George Henry" from the 29th May, 1860, to the 13th September, 1862; with the Results of a Long Intercourse with the Innuits and Full Description of Their Mode of Life, the Discovery of Actual Relics of the Expedition of Martin Frobisher of Three Centuries Ago, and Deductions in Favor of Yet Discovering Some of the Survivors of Sir John Franklin's Expedition, Volume 1 |
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Page 138 - God that made the world and all things therein, seeing that he is Lord of heaven and earth, dwelleth not in temples made with hands...
Page 310 - Into a Limbo large and broad, since called The Paradise of Fools, to few unknown Long after, now unpeopled and untrod.
Page 22 - Ay, nearing the goal of my fondest wishes. Every thing relating to the arctic zone is deeply interesting to me. I love the snows, the ices, icebergs, the fauna, and the flora of the North ! I love the circling sun, the long day, the arctic night, when the soul can commune with God in silent and reverential awe ! I am on a mission of love. I feel to be in the performance of a duty I owe to mankind — myself — God ! Thus feeling, I am strong at heart, full of faith, ready to do or die in the cause...
Page 97 - It has been said by a well-known witty writer, now deceased, when referring to the Esquimaux, in an arctic book he was reviewing, that they are " singular composite beings — a link between Saxons and seals — hybrids, putting the seals...
Page 289 - ... tender meat, dripping with blood. How ambrosial to my palate ! Lastly came — what ? Entrails, which the old lady drew through her fingers yards in length. This was served to every one but me in pieces of two to three feet long. I saw at once that it was supposed I would not like to eat this delicacy; but, having partaken of it before, I signified my wish to do so now ; for, be it remembered, there is no part of a seal but is good.
Page 222 - Next came the liver, which was cut into pieces and distributed all around, myself getting and eating a share. Of course it was eaten raw for this was a raw-meat feast - its eating being accompanied by taking into the mouth at the same time a small portion of delicate white blubber, which answered the same as butter with bread. Then followed distributing the ribs of the seal for social picking. I joined in all this, doing as they did, and becoming quite an Innuit save in the quantity eaten. This I...
Page 157 - Then I tried to picture the scene before me. Piles of golden light and rainbow light, scattered along the azure vault, extended from behind the western horizon to the zenith; thence down to the eastern, within a belt of space 20° in width, were the fountains of beams, like fire-threads, that shot with the rapidity of lightning hither and thither, upward and athwart the great pathway indicated. No sun, no moon, yet the heavens were a glorious sight, flooded with light. Even ordinary print could have...
Page 11 - As a testimony of our personal regard, and the interest we feel in the proposed expedition, we will convey it and its required outfit, boats, sledges, provisions, instruments, etc., free of charge, on the barque ' George Henry,' to Northumberland Inlet; and, whenever desired, we will give the same free passage home in any of our vessels.
Page 135 - Turkey!' But it would not go down so easy. Not because the stomach has posted up its sentinel to say 'no whale can come down here' but because it was tougher than any bull beef of Christendom! For half an hour I tried to masticate it, and then found it was even tougher than when I began. At length I discovered I had been making a mistake in the way to eat it. The Esquimaux custom is to get as vast a piece into their distended mouths as they can cram, and then, boa constrictor-like, first lubricate...
Page 156 - I had gone on deck several times to look at the beauteous scene, and at nine o'clock was below in my cabin, going to bed, when the captain hailed me with the words, ' Come above, Hall, at once ! The world is on fire !' " I knew his meaning, and, quick as thought, I re-dressed myself, scrambled over several sleeping Innuits close to my berth, and rushed to the companion stairs. In another moment I reached the deck, and, as the cabin door swung open, a dazzling, overpowering light, as if the world...