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rotting in their tents they go on destroying anything 

 they can lay their hands on. I spoke to some of 

 them pretty plainly, and pointed out their ingratitude 

 to the Giver of every good gift." 



Perhaps after this we are not very much surprised 

 to read in a later note, " Here we find that the seals 

 are pretty nearly exterminated." 



So probably the spirit of kill, kill, kill is ingrained 

 in man wherever he lives, south or north, west or 

 east. Laws for the protection of the lower creation 

 over which he is tyrant are needed universally. 



It is not to be supposed that the missionaries 

 sat all this time in their hut with their stores around 

 them unconcerned at the sufferings of the Eskimos. 

 We have, in the course of these pages, learned to 

 know Mr. Peck and his colleagues better than that. 

 If a brother or a sister were naked and destitute of 

 daily food, they did not say, " Depart in peace, 

 be ye warmed and rilled," without giving them those 

 things that were needful for the body. They both 

 preached and acted the Gospel. 



There was plenty of use for the seeming abundance 

 of stores that we saw in a former chapter had been 

 laid in at the Mission station. " We made a large 

 kettle of porridge and gave the very needy ones a 

 good meal," is a note that seems just to introduce 

 a coming time of distress. It becomes more serious 

 when " a deep and soft coat of snow makes travelling 

 about almost impossible. We did what we could 



