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The two sledges now journeyed home
wards carrying their prize, the intestines
and many heavy parts of the animal were
left on a neighboring ice berg.

As they doubled the little island which
stood in front of their settlement the women
ran down the rocks to meet them. A long
hail, carried the good news, and as
they landed upon the beach, knives were
quickly at work. The allotment of the
meat being determined by well understood
hunters laws. These Esquimaux, however
glutonously in our eyes they may eat,
nevertheless abstain from food with
as much ease as they indulge. None
of the morning party had breakfasted and
it was after ten o'clock, before they
"sat down to dinner".

This [so?] the only expression of our own
gastrology which is applicable to an Esquimaux
feast. They truly sit down, each
man women and child, knife in hand
squatting themselves cross legged around
a formidable joint, say forty pounds, and
without waiting for the tardy cookage of
the lamp, falling to like college commoners
after grace. I have seen many such
feeds. Mortons account however was so
mingled with wonderment that I'll
try to give it.

Why sir, even the children eat
all night. You know the little two
years old, one, that Awiu carried
in her hood, the one that bit you when
you tickled it -: well Captain Kane,
that baby cut for herself, with a knife
made out of an iron hoop and so heavy
that it could hardly lift it."

[Well?] Morton try and think, for I want