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far as we could learn, unchastity in a girl was considered nothing against 

 her.&quot; (42:419.) 



Turner says : 



&quot;Many of the girls bear children before they are taken for wives, but as 

 such incidents do not destroy the respectability of the mother, the girl 

 does not experience any difficulty in procuring a husband. (66: 189; see 

 also 30: 96; 45: 292.) 



On the other hand, Hans Egede, who was certainly not want 

 ing in strictness as to the seventh commandment, says of the 

 Greenlanders of his day (he was the first white man to live 

 among them in modern times) : 



* Young women and girls are modest enough, as we have never seen them 

 have any wanton relations with young men, or give the least indication of 

 such conduct, either in word or deed. During the fifteen years I was in 

 Greenland I knew of only two or three girls who became pregnant outside 

 of marriage; for this is held to be a great disgrace.&quot; (19: 78.) 



Dalager, an early authority, says of Eskimo girls that &quot;in 

 their first years of maturity they bear themselves very chastely, 

 for otherwise they are certain to spoil their chances of mar 

 riage.&quot; (Quoted 43:167.) Of the Greenlanders in general 

 he says that they are not so much given to incontinence as are 

 ether nations. It may be noted that Nansen accepts the above 

 testimony of these two authorities, as substantially accurate. 

 Crantz says, in one place, that 



&quot;however careful their young and single people may be to avoid all open 

 irregularity in their deportment, they are in secret quite as licentious as 

 those of other nations&quot; (16. 1: 175), 



but in another place he writes that 



the women are seldom guilty of incontinence, with the exception of young 

 widows and those divorced from their husbands. Single persons of both 

 sexes have rarely any connections.&quot; (16. 1: 145.) 



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The authority last quoted states that &quot;there are among them 



harlots by profession, though a single woman will seldom follow 

 this infamous trade.&quot; (16.1:176.) No matter what may be 

 the exact condition of sexual morality in general, it is fairly 

 certain that prostitution, when found among the Eskimo, is 

 attributable to foreign influence. If Crantz observation is cor 

 rect, the cases he refers to may well have been due to contact 

 with traders. Murdoch states that prostitution &quot;is carried to 



