WHERE AND HOW THEY LIVE. 13 



After a while, these Eskimo began to 

 consider us a part of their own tribe, 

 gave us Eskimo names, by which we were 

 known among the tribe, invited us to 

 participate in their games and amuse- 

 ments, and in cases of direst want, when 

 their superstitions drove them to their 

 singular rites and ceremonies to avert the 

 threatened dangers, they even asked us 

 to join in using our mysterious influence. 

 We four white men did not live in the 

 same snow-hut all the time, but for many 

 months were living apart from each other 

 in the different snow houses of the natives 

 themselves, and this did much to make 

 the natives feel kindly toward us. We 

 made sledge journeys among them away 

 from our home for many months, taking 

 their best hunters with us, and found 

 many other natives who had never before 



