These stores were bought at our own suggestion.
It would have been better to have taken the advice of some experienced shipmaster: it might have cost us less, and we should afterwards have fared better, to have done so.
I remember that we took along a lot of confectioneries, both for our own delectation and also to "treat" the Esquimaux on! That was a wild shot.

As well offer an Esquimau cold boiled parsnip as a stick of candy.

We also had two boxes of lemons! Which of us was responsible for the proposition for lemonade in Hudson Straits has never been satisfactory settled.

We none of us _can remember_ how the lemons came on board.

Wade says they were bought as an antidote for sea-sickness.
A far more sensible article of traffic was twenty dollars' worth of iron in small bars; four dozen large jack-knives; twenty butcher-knives, and the same number of hatchets.