description: | The Hudson'S Bay Company Ships "Prince Of Wales" And "Eddystone" Bartering With The Esquimaux Of The Upper Savage (Slave) Islands, Hudson Straits. The Large Boat In The Foreground Is Filled With The Women And An Old Man Steering. The Canoe In The Foreground Is Loaded With Blubber And Bladders Oil. The Naked Esquimaux Has Sold All His Clothes. From A Watercolour By Robert Hood (1796 - 1821) |