Stefdnsson's party hauling a seal to shore. The party averaged seven Eskimo, four of 

 these seven remaining with the expedition the entire fom* years. Among these fonr were 

 Ilavinirk, his wife, Mamayaiik. and their daughter, Nogosak. [Mamayauk is sliown in the 

 photograph at the extreme right] 



were still in good condition. One day an Eskimo passed his door and 

 it struck the lawyer that the suit of clothes would just about fit that 

 particular man, so he called him in, dressed him from head to foot in 

 clothes better than most Eskimo can afford — gave him shoes, a hat 

 and everything else necessary to make him presentable. The Eskimo took 

 all this as a matter of course, expressing neither gratitude nor pleasure, and 

 when he saw that he was going to get nothing more, he pulled out an ivory 

 toothpick and tried to sell it 

 to the lawyer for ten cents. 

 The story is typical of the 

 entire Alaska and Mackenzie 

 district; the indiscriminate 

 charities of whalers and 

 missionaries alike have thor- 

 oughly pauperized the Es- 

 kimo. It seems strange that 

 while we fully realize the 

 danger of pauperizing the 

 slums of New York, there 

 seems to occur to no one the 

 possibility that the heathen as 

 well as the hoodlum may be 

 injured by too much kindness. 

 You may be able to sterilize 

 out of the old clothes bo.xes 



the germs of tuberculosis Young Nogosak, daugliter of Mamayauk, with 



' ' ' licr older adoi)tod brother. The latter was a valuable 

 typhoid and measles, but you member of the expedition for three years 



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