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weapons, implements, and domestic appliances of these 

 people we were to argue that they were of low intelligence. 

 Their implements, apparently so very primitive, proved 

 to be as well adapted to their existing requirements and 

 conditions as experience and the skilful tests of many 

 centuries could have made them." 



Ugpi, an Eskimo 



From Amundsen vol. i, p. 190. 



" Ugpi or Uglen (the ' Owl ') as we always called him, 

 attracted immediate attention by his appearance. With his 

 long black hair hanging over his shoulders, his dark eyes 

 and frank honest expression, he would have been good- 

 looking if his broad face and large mouth had not spoilt 

 his beauty from a European standpoint. There was 

 something serious, almost dreamy, about him. Honesty 

 and truthfulness are unmistakably impressed on his features, 

 and I would never have hesitated for a moment to entrust 

 him with anything. During his association with us he 

 became an exceptionally clever hunter both for birds and 

 reindeer. He was about thirty years old and was married 

 to Kabloka, a very small girl of seventeen." 



Eskimo and Civilisation 



From Amundsen vol. ii, p. 48. 



" During the voyage of the Gjoa^ we came into contact 

 with ten different Eskimo tribes in all . . . and I must 

 state it as my firm conviction that the Eskimo living abso- 

 lutely isolated from civilisation of any kind are undoubtedly 



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