CHILDREN OF THE COLD. 



make he now unexpectedly found in his 

 possession. When I told him that our 

 factories (or " big igloos" as I called 

 them for his easier understanding) could 

 make more than he could carry of such 

 butcher-knives during the time we had 

 spent in talking about his, he expressed 

 his great surprise in prolonged gasps of 

 breath at this manifest superiority of 

 the Kod-loou-sah, as the Eskimo call the 

 white men. 



Among the women of this same tribe 

 I found a number of square iron nee- 

 dles that they had taken months to 

 make, slowly filing them on rough, rusty 

 irort plates and occasionally using stones 

 for the same purpose. We had with us 

 a great number of glover's needles, and 

 these we traded for the iron ones, which 

 to us were great curiosities. The women 



