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night au five or six months long, and 

 where it is so very, very cold, none of 

 these people live, as there are no animals 

 for them to kill and live upon ; but 

 around about the outer edge of this re- 

 gion that is, in the Arctic circle, and 

 sometimes far back along the sea-coast 

 the greater part of them are to be found. 



All over Arctic America, as you will 

 see it in your geography, these people 

 are of one kind, speaking nearly the same 

 language, and very much alike in other 

 respects. They are called the Eskimo ; 

 or, as the name is sometimes spelled, 

 Esquimaux. All over Arctic Europe and 

 Asia (looking again at your geography), 

 there are scattered many tribes of these 

 people, speaking different languages, and 

 differing in many other respects. 



As I lived for a time among the former, 



