When the conversation was resumed the chief renewed his solicitations for goods, but it was now too palpable to be mistaken that he aimed at getting everything he possibly could and leaving us without the means of making any presents to the Esquimaux or other Indians we might meet.

I resolved therefore on steadily refusing every request and, when he perceived that he could extort nothing more, he rose in an angry manner and, addressing his young men, said: "There are too few goods for me to distribute; those that mean to follow the white people to the sea may take them." This was an incautious speech as it rendered it necessary for his party to display their sentiments.

The guides and most of the hunters declared their readiness to go and came forward to receive a portion of the present which was no inconsiderable assortment.

This relieved a weight of anxiety from my mind and I did not much regard the leader's retiring in a very dissatisfied mood.
The hunters then applied to Mr.Wentzel for ammunition that they might hunt in the morning and it was cheerfully given to them.
The officers and men amused themselves at prison-bars and other Canadian games till two o'clock in the morning, and we were happy to observe the Indians sitting in groups enjoying the sport.

We were desirous of filling up the leisure moments of the Canadians with amusements, not only for the purpose of enlivening their spirits but also to prevent them from conversing upon our differences with the Indians, which they must have observed.