Note 31 — Chapter II · TELEMACHUS GOES IN QUEST OF HIS FATHER.

The Esquimaux adopt the very same stratagem in order to get near the seals. “Sir Edward Beecher, in a dissertation on Esquimaux habits read before the British Association, told a story, that he was once levelling his rifle at a supposed seal, when a shipmate’s well-known voice from within the hide arrested his aim with the words, ‘Don’t shoot—it’s Husky, sir!’”—Hayman’s Odyssey, app. xliii.