First communication with the natives of Boothia Felix Finish:10-pack *** Local Caption *** 15th

*** Local Caption *** 15th February 1973

Russel pinxit Geo: Vertue Sculp: 1719

Boat race on the River Thames for the August bank holiday

was completed in 1824

First communication with the natives of Boothia Felix Finish:10-pack *** Local Caption *** 15thDepiction of the events of 9 January 1830, when John Ross 'saw four Esquimaux [Inuit] near a small iceberg Knowing that the word of salutation between meeting tribes was Tima tima, I hailed them in their own language, and was answered by a general shout of the same kind'. Plate facing p. 243 of the Narrative of a second voyage in search of a north west passage, and of a residence in the Arctic regions during the years 1829 1833, by Sir John Ross