My Eskimo Friends (1924)

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THE BELCHER ISLANDS 47 That this estimable scheme for mutual benefit, however, was not to be realized is apparent from the fact that the islands so soon and so completely drop out of Hudson Bay tradition. To the present generation of fur traders on the Bay, Wetalltok’s tale was a myth, nor did they believe my first reports. Among some of the government officials at Ottawa, as well, these reports were nothing if not amusing. Where I claimed the existence of a great mass of land, they pulled out their Admiralty chart and showed me soundings!