NATIVES OF GREENLAND, S7 



and calm majestic deportment, recede and dwindle. The 

 African exhibits the organs of sense largely developed — 

 patulous nostrils, large lips and mouth, prominent eyes — 

 all proportionally increased ; whilst, in the same degree, 

 the internal organs of the mind become diminished, until 

 the character is scarcely above that of idiocy. The social 

 aft'ections are, under such circumstances, extremely weak, 

 and consequently the progress of civilization is visibly em- 

 barrassed. But as the cold of northern regions can be 

 mitigated by artificial means, the situation of the Laplander 

 or Samoeide is consequently less in extreme, than that of 

 the inhabitant of the torrid zone, who is perpetually ex- 

 posed to a burning sun. In the manners and tempers of 

 both there is a manifest distinction. Ferocious, vengeful, 

 and rapacious, the African will allow nothing to thwart his 

 resistless passion ; whilst on the contrary the Arctic Tartar, 

 humble and simple, is content with his dreary wastes and 

 precarious subsistence, seldom raising his mind to the at- 

 tractions of revolution. 



The early discoverers of Greenland Avere surprised to 

 meet with a people already in possession of those countries. 

 They described them as diminutive in person, dressed in 

 skins, and moving about in little boats covered also with 

 skins. They are represented as not having ships ; and yet 

 subsequent adventurers from Europe met tribes of this same 



