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ciate on terms of equality. To his finer clothes he 

 doubtless attributes much of his personal importance ; 

 — but such things are not confined to Esquimaux. 



November 16th. 



McCormick has established a school of navigation, 

 and has three good pupils in Barnum, Charley, and 

 McDonald. There is indeed quite a thirst for knowl- 

 edge in that quarter known as " Mariner's Hall," and 

 an excellent library, which we owe to the kindness of 

 our Boston friends, is well used. In the cabin there 

 is a quiet settlement into literary ease. Dodge has 

 already consumed several boxes of " Littell's Living 

 Age " and the " Westminster Review." Knorr studies 

 Danish, Jensen English, and Sonntag is wading through 

 Esquimau, and, w r ith his long, mathematical head, is 

 conjuring up some incomprehensible compound of dif- 

 ferential quantities. As for myself, there is no end to 

 my occupations. The routine of our life causes me 

 much concern and consumes much of my time. Per- 

 haps I give myself needless anxiety about the affairs 

 of my household, and charge myself uselessly with 

 "that care which is the enemy of life," and which 

 long ago disturbed the earthly career of the good old 

 Mother Hubbard ; but then I find in it my chief sat- 

 isfaction, and the leisure hours are filled up pleasantly 

 enough with a book or a w r alk or this journal. On 

 me the days of darkness have not yet begun to hang 

 heavily, but I can see weariness in the future. 



November 17 th. 



The temperature has fallen to 10° below zero, for 

 which we are duly thankful. Again the air sparkles 

 with cold, and a dead calm has let the frost cover the 



