206 SKETCH OF THE HISTORY OF MAMMALfA. 



ultimate end they aspire at in all their device and labour 

 from their childhood up." To the Greenlander, then, 

 the sea is his pasturage, where his flocks and herds are 

 fed : the sea is his hunting-domain, where, in his light 

 kajak, he skims over the waves : 



** There tumbling in their seal-skin boat, 

 Fearless the hungry fishers float, 

 And from the teeming seas supply 

 The food their niggard plains deny." 



