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Says Parry in his Narrative ^[[(page [[encircled]] 526 [[/encircled]]]] of his ^[[(2d)]] Voyage ^[[1921-2]] to Discover the NW Passage of the Esquimaux of Winter Island & [[strikethrough]] Ogylolik [[/strikethrough]] Igloolik. In the few opportunities we had of putting their hospitality to the test we had ^[[every]] reason to be pleased with them. Both as to food & accommodation the best they had were always at our service: & their attention, both in kind & degree, was everything that hospitality & even good breeding could dictate. The kindly offices of drying & mending our clothes, cooking our provisions & thawing snow for our drink, were performed by the women with an obliging cheerfulness wh. we shall not easily forget & wh. commanded its [[strikethrough]] full [[/strikethrough]] due share of our admiration - esteem. Whilst thus their guest, I have passed an evening not only with comfort, but with extreme gratification; for with the women working & singing, their husbands quietly mending their lines, the children playing before the door & the pot boiling over the blaze of a cheerful lamp, one might well forget for the time that Esquimaux hut was the scene of this domestic comfort & tranquility: & [[strikethrough]] that [[/strikethrough]] [[end page]] [[start page]] I can saftely affirm with Cartwright that, which when lodged beneath their roof, I know no people whom I would more confidently trust as respects to either my person or property than the Esquimaux [[line across page]] [[?Lanse]]-Koo-muk - Parry It has been advanced as a maxim that [[underlined]] what we wish to be true we readily believe; [[/underlined]] a maxim wh. however doubtful in general has met with a full illustration in the northern voyages of discovery. Scoresby Arctic Reg. Vol 1. [[encircled]] 3 [[/encircled]] [[line across page]] In Richard H. Chapell's Book But the strangest thing that in the respect fell within the Compass of my observation, was aboard ^[[our]] own ship where there was a very honest seaman whose sole Delight was a delicious [[?dream]] that one day heated himself to such a degree, in talking over the business of the Expedition that in the warm sincerity of his heart he could not help saying with a good pound oath Now had I rather find a North West Passage than half an Anchor of [[?beauty]]. [[encircled]] 269 [[/encircled]] Ellis Voyage NW Passage New London Chapell Book 1748