Identifier: voyagetoarctici00lind (find matches)
Title: A voyage to the arctic in the whaler Aurora
Year: 1911 (1910s)
Authors: Lindsay, David Moore, 1862-
Subjects: Aurora (Ship) Whaling
Publisher: Boston : Dana Estes & Co.
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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e or she whoran might read. Of course, in lower latitudes,where high civilization and divorce courts exist,shortness of hair would render some records soincomplete that the Greenland method is neverlikely to supplant the present ready references tobe found amongst interested and observing neigh-bors. A bodice was worn, made of some cheerfulcolored stuff procured at the shop or fromwhalers. Tight fitting trousers, made of bay sealskin and extending down to the knees, came next,and very gaudy boots of colored skin. Down thefront of each leg of the trousers was a stripe II/2inches wide, of colored skin, and the boots, espe-cially around the tops, were very ornate. Many ofthe girls were good-looking, and on their arrivala ball commenced in the tween-decks which lastedwhile they were there; fiddles and concertinassupplying the music. These instruments wereplayed by whalers and Eskimos equally well, andthey knew the same airs. Most of our visitorshad articles to barter and they wanted bread
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Copyright by Underwood and I inkiwoiid, X. V. Cape York Esquimaux IN THE WHALER AURORA 107 in return more than anything else, but acceptedcolored handkerchiefs and other trifles. Slippers and tobacco j)ouches were their prin-cipal stock in trade, but there were some downquilts, prettily bordered with the green necks ofthe eider duck. Captain Fairweather and myselfspent a pleasant evening with the governor andhis deputy, and it was interesting to hear themusic of civilization played on a piano by thewife of the latter. Coming away, they gave us a lot of quaintivories made by the natives, from walrus tusks,such as brooches, pipes, paper knives, etc., etc. May 18th. Sunday. I went on shore early, andseeing a lot of snow buntings, spent some timelooking for their nests, but without result. Onthe sunny sides of the rocks the snow had gone;there was some dead grass, but indeed the countrywas, for the most part, covered with it. Therewere several pairs of ravens about, but I couldnot find th

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