I2 THE CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



the Eskimo, my descriptions will apply 

 only to that nation, and only to those 

 parts which I visited ; for when you 

 looked at your geography, if you did 

 so carefully, you must have seen that 

 the Arctic part of North America was 

 an immense tract of land reaching from 

 the Atlantic to the Pacific, across the 

 widest part of America, and that it 

 would take a single traveler almost a 

 long life-time to see all the Eskimo and 

 study carefully their homes, habits, and 

 customs. I did not merely live in a ship 

 or a tent or house of my own alongside 

 the tents and huts of the natives, and 

 from there occasionally visit them ; but 

 I, with my little party of three other 

 white men, lived for two years in Eskimo 

 tents and huts, so that we made these 

 savages' homes our own. 



