Description
An Inuit man brought to Dundee from Aggijjat, an island in Nunavut, by Captain Adams of the whaler Maud, the same captain who brought Olnik to Dundee ten years before. Etwango gave a demonstration of canoeing and of the “Esqu*maux method of seal hunting” at Claypots Pond in November 1886. He gave a similar demonstration on the River Tay. Etwango left Dundee in March 1887, once more aboard the Maud. He apparently left with gifts from the captain, including “a rifle and a fowling piece, 2000 cartridges, 30 boxes of caps, several bags of shot, and a hundredweight of lead to cast into balls,” along with a chest of tools and some knives.
Bibliographic sources
“Narrow Escape of the Maud,” Shetland News, 23 October 1886, 7; “[No title] Uria Etwango”,”Dundee Courier, 4 November 1886, 2; “Departure of the Whaler Maud,” Dundee Evening Telegraph, 14 March 1887, 4.