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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, with 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 

 lono; ag-o disturbed the earthlv career of the good old 

 Mother Hubbard ; but then I find in it my chief satr 

 isfaction, and the leisure hours are filled up pleasantly 

 enough with a book or a walk 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 thankfid. Again the air sparkles 

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



