"While in the tent, Tookoolito brought out the book I had given her, and desired to be instructed."

"She has got so far as to spell words of two letters, and pronounce most of them properly."

"Her Progress is praiseworthy. At almost every step of advancement, she feels as elated as a triumphant hero in battle."

"Tookoolito had the tea kettle over the friendly re-lamp, and the water boiling. she asked me if i drink tea. Imagine my surprise at this, the question coming from an Esquimaux in an Esquimaux tent!"

"I replied, ' I do, but you have not tea here, do you?' drawing her hand from a little tin box, she displayed it full of fine- flavoured black tea, saying 'Do you like your tea strong?' Thinking to spare her the use of much of this precious article away up here, far from the land of civilisations, I replied, 'I’ll take it weak, if you please'."

"A cup of hot tea was soon before me, capital tea, and capitally made. Taking from my pocket a sea-biscuit which I had brought from the vessel for my dinner, I shared it with my hostess."

"Tookoolito said to me 'I feel sorry to say that many of the whaling people are very bad. making the Inuits bad too. they swear very much, and make our people swear. I wish they would not do so. Americans swear a great deal - more and work than the english. I wish no one would swear. It is a very bad practice, I believe.' "

"Her words, her looks, her voice, her tears, are in my ears still.

I confess, I blushed for this stain upon my country’s honour - not only this, but for the wickedness diffused almost throughout the unenlightened world by the instrumentality of whalers hailing from civilized lands."