I 4 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



seen any white men ; and when there 

 seemed to be any danger from the wily 

 tricks and stratagems of these wilder 

 savages, the members of the tribe with 

 which we lived would, as far as they 

 could, tell us all about it and consult with 

 us as to defense, just as if we were their 

 brothers, and not white men, wholly dif- 

 ferent from them, while the ones they 

 were thus plotting against were Eskimo, 

 like themselves. 



Their little children, too, played with 

 us and around us, just as if our faces 

 were a few shades darker and we were 

 truly their own kind ; and as it is of them 

 you naturally desire to hear, you can see 

 that we were in a position to find out by 

 long experience what can be told you 

 about them. 



As soon as little Boreas (as we shall 



