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might have been the wife of Dr. Kane; and what would he have done with her in the Arctic regions?
That's the present anxiety.
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I am giving Sunday evening lectures on the “Seven Deadly Sins,” or, as Mary irreverently terms them, “the Deadlies.”
The congregations are crowded as much as ever, though half the original ones are gone West.
Worcester, February, 1857
You will like to hear something of Dr. Hayes and his lecture.
There was a large audience, who of course expected plenty of beard and bearskin, and applauded rather faintly when a spare young man in black stepped out on the platform.
He is thin, nervous, spirited, with quite a lively manner. . . . Much of the lecture was familiar to us; but the descriptions were very simple and quite graphic.
He always said we and referred but once to Dr. Kane, speaking of “the brave heart of our commander.”
The most novel and least pleasing part of it was his description of their separation from Dr. Kane.
This he did not speak of as a thing requiring apology, but he did not give the explanation given by Dr. Kane, or rather added it, as part of their plan, to remain at the Esquimaux settlements and supply the rest of the party with food.
But how were they to get the food?
They were not hunters, and their few knives and treasures soon lost their power over the natives, so that they would not sell them even provisions enough for themselves, 