CHAPTER II 



THE ESKIMOS THEIR ORIGIN, GOVERNMENT AND 



RELIGION 



" I am debtor both to the Greeks and to 

 the Barbarians." 



" Come over into Macedonia and help us." 



NOW that we have seen the man whom God 

 had prepared for His call and work, let us 

 visit the people for whom he was prepared, and 

 learn something of their needs. 



Shall we try to imagine a scene which may have 

 taken place some 300 years ago or thereabouts ? 

 The French had begun to colonise Canada. The 

 city of Quebec was about to be founded. One 

 day a French settler had penetrated perhaps further 

 north than usual. He met a strange-looking man. 

 He was broad-faced, flat-featured, smiling, good- 

 tempered, sallow complexioned, rather short, quite 

 unlike the Indians by whom the Frenchman was 

 accompanied, and with whom he had been quite 

 familiar. He asked his companions : 



" Who is this ? " 



With a contemptuous curl of the lip the Indians 

 answered : 



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