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mate under heaven, can alone exist in this; 
but the warmth of the sun is essential to the 
developement of his faculties. Here he is a 
mere animal, and of disgusting appearance ; 
small, ill-shaped, with dirty copper-coloured 
skin, black bristly hair, and devoid of beard. 
He inhabits a miserable hut made of boughs 
covered with dried rushes, and appeases his 
hunger on the raw and often half-decayed flesh 
of the sea animals, whose skins furnish him 
with a scanty covering: this is the utmost 
extent to which his invention has yet led him, in 
providing defences against the roughness of the 
climate; and the dreariness of his existence is 
still unenlivened by any notion of amusement. 
Yet is this benumbing country situated in the 
same degree of southern latitude in which in the 
northern lies my beloved Esthonia, where every 
comfort of civilization may be enjoyed —the 
land. of my birth, where in the charming form 
of woman is ‘‘ garnered up” the happiness of 
my life, and where I hope to rest at last in the 
haven of friendship and love, till I set out 
on that final voyage from which I shall never 
return 
