First communication with the natives of Boothia Felix mb-height 1309 A procession in Farringdon Street

A procession in Farringdon Street passing under Holborn Viaduct

Peter Baker

with their children went to the Costers Cathedral

in profile

Stanza della Segnatura

First communication with the natives of Boothia Felix mb-height 1309 A procession in Farringdon StreetDepiction 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