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Nelson Examiner and New Zealand Chronicle, Volume XII, Issue 602, 17 September 1853, Page 2

Love of the Esquimaux for Tobacco. —The craving of these people for tobacco was incessant. *' As we go north," ob«enre« Commander Maguire, " their eagerness for it can hardly be imagined ; if we had a ship full of tobacco with us, we could not appease their wants. I can only compare them to a set of people shut up without food or drink for a week, and then let loose only on a scanty supply ; add to this their being savages, and some idea may be formed of our small boats, surrounded on all sides with baiders full of Esquimaux, all shouting out the same -story, 4 tawac' " — Commander Maguire's Journal.

Est-il. Possible? — A few days after the landing of William of Nassau at T orbay, the officers, nobility, and courtiers of James 11. began to fall off from their falling master, as usual in such cases. Amongst the most faithful, however, apparently, was Prince George of Denmark, consort of the Princess Anne, James's daughter. At every fresh account of a defection of a Lord A., Lord 8., or Lord C, the indignant Prince George exclaimed. "JSstil possible ?" This continued for three or four days; till at length, one morning, the unfortunate Monarch inquiring why Prince George was missing from his thinned levee, the answer was, on account of his desertion to William. " Whatl" »aid Jtmet, "it Est-il possible gone •ißor