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LIFE WITH THE ESQUIMAUX .
and a curious picture it was thus to see them. Frequently, accompanied by some of these visitors, I went to their village and to the islands around us, always being received by the natives in the most friendly manner.
Once we had a stranger arrive who had formerly lived near "King's Cape," at a place called by Esquimaux Se-ko-se-lar.[1] This man's name was Koo-choo-ar-choo, but known by us as
THE "GEORGE HENRY" IN WINTER QUARTERS.
"Sampson," 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 Puk-e-ne-yer, of about
- ↑ 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 undiscovered by white men. This bay is somewhere between the longitude 72° and 75° west, making far up, due north, and abounding in seals, walrus, white whales, and the Mysticeti, or Greenland whales.
