Poor Kalli's lamentations were quite heartrending. His feelings were,
of course, respected, the graves were at once built up again, and the
spear replaced. Captain Ommanney learnt afterwards from Kalli, that
it was his father's grave, over which the spear had been placed by
friends of the deceased. They have a tradition that in a future state
the means of hunting are still required, and, because in this world
the search of food is the chief object of life, the hunting-lance is
deposited on the grave.
The young stranger subsequently lived on board the "Assistance". He
was placed under the care of the serjeant of Marines, who instructed
Kalli in the rudiments of reading and writing, and to whom he became
much attached. By his amiable disposition he made himself welcome and
agreeable to all the expedition, and, as, in consequence of the state
of the ice, no opportunity was offered of landing him on his native
shores, on the return of the vessel past York Inlet, he was brought to
England. The leaders of the expedition conferred the surname of York
upon him, from the locality in which he was found. To this the name of
Erasmus was prefixed, after that of the gallant Captain Ommanney.