80 THE LIFE OF E. J. PECK 



God did lighten it, and the Lamb is the light thereof. 



The name of this Eskimo lad was Anoat, which 

 means clothing. This seems appropriate in the 

 light of his subsequent history. For the result of 

 this life in close association with the Servant of 

 Christ was that after many years in 1900 he put on 

 the Lord Jesus Christ and was clothed with Him. 

 The Rev. W. G. Walton speaks, in a recent report, 

 of his power and influence. Though his name is 

 Anoat, for some inscrutable reason he was known 

 among the traders as Nero. Happily there is no 

 likeness in character to justify this. 



The Eskimo language is by no means easy of 

 acquisition. The chief peculiarity in it is its 

 agglutinativeness, and this also causes the great diffi- 

 culty which is not so much the learning to express 

 one's own thoughts as understanding what others 

 are saying. All manner of parts of speech may 

 become joined to the verbal root, and then this 

 compound may be conjugated in all moods and 

 tenses like a simple verb. So great is the length 

 to which words may grow under this treatment, 

 that Mr. Peck has often exhibited to English 

 audiences a canvas two and a half yards long which 

 contains one word only a good object lesson of 

 some of the linguistic trials that missionaries have 

 to face. 



Here we may anticipate a little, while speaking 

 of the language, and say that whatever difficulties 



