Samuel Hadlock Jr.'s Journal, Europe, 1824-1826, page 7
I Wase [was] oblige[obliged] to onlode [onload] My goodes [goods] and have them over hold And to pay dutis [duties] for the same And then alowed [allowed] to pas [pass] after Shooing [showing] our pasportes [passports] I arived [arrived] at Lipsick [Leipzig] on the 16th of September stopt [stopped] Thair [there] till the 26 and in this time Haid [had?] a booth built for to Exibitin [exhibition] The fair held 3 weakes [weeks] in this time My reseates [receipts] ware [were] $1500 and on Sunday in the afternoon I put the Indian on the watter [water] at the funking [?] Burg for the last time in this town Whare [where] I took $600 In 2 owers [hours] the Crowds of Spectators ware [were] great and Mutch [much] plesied [pleased] to behold a native From the artick [Arctic] regions employ his Boat with sutch [such] admirable dexteritey [dexterity] and kill his game so wall [well] as he did
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Samuel Hadlock of Islesford, Maine, documented his travels in Europe, where he exhibited a group of Inuit and Romani people as entertainment.
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