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become good hunters or good seamstresses, as the case 

 may be, " Peary aksoah " will reward them sometime in 

 the not too distant future. Old Ikwah, for example, 

 who is the father of the girl for whose possession hot- 

 hearted young Ooqueah of my North Pole party 

 fought his way with me to the goal, was the first 

 Eskimo I had, away back in 1891. 



This young knight of the Northland is an illustra- 

 tion of the fact that sometimes an Eskimo man or 

 woman may be as intense in his or her affairs of the 

 heart as we are. As a rule, however, they are more 

 like children in their affections, faithful to their mates 

 from a sort of domestic habit, but easily consoled for 

 the loss of them by death or otherwise. 



