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So I prefer silence to exposing myself to your 

 incredulity; but if I had to visit them again, I 

 should liken it rather to taking lodgings in the 

 den of a polar bear. The first time, in God s 

 good providence, he did not show his claws. 



Arrival &quot; Harness yourself to a wheelbarrow or a gar 



den-roller, and then, having blindfolded yourself, 

 you will be able to fancy me arriving, snow-blind 

 and hauling my sledge, at the Eskimo camp, 

 which is a white beehive about six feet across, 

 with the way a little larger than that for the 

 bees. ... As to one s costume, you cannot manage 

 that, except that a blanket is always a good cloak 

 for us; but take a large butcher s knife in your 

 hand, and that of itself will make you an Eskimo 

 without further additions. 



Food &quot;If you will swallow a chimneyful of smoke, 



or take a few whiffs of the fumes of charcoal, 

 you will know something of the Eskimo s mode 

 of intoxicating themselves with tobacco, and a 

 tanyard will give you an idea of the sweetness of 

 their camps. Fat, raw bacon, you will find, 

 tastes much like whale blubber, and lamp oil, 

 sweetened somewhat, might pass for seal fat. 

 Rats you will doubtless find equally good to 

 eat at home as here, though without the musk 

 flavour; but you must get some raw fish, a little 

 rotten, to enjoy a good Eskimo dinner.&quot; 



opposition One of the first effects of the preaching of the 



Gospel has ever been the the arousal of the forces 

 of evil in opposition. The Angakoks, or medicine 

 men, finding their &quot;craft in danger,&quot; charged the 



