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Uxra was a strapping young man of about thirty-five years, a 

 great hustler and a good hunter. He was not born in this country, 

 but had come from Kotzebue Sound. His wife Tullik was also 

 young and had a very pleasant face, but spinal tuberculosis had 

 made her a cripple. Poor girl, she was very vain and did not 

 like to let us see her in profile. She dressed neatly and had 



TULLIK AND UXRA AND THEIR ADOPTED CHILD. 



comparatively cleanly habits, was a splendid sempstress and 

 an industrious woman, but apart from that, a hindrance to her 

 young and strong husband. She could not do the hard work 

 which usually falls to the lot of an Eskimo woman, and Uxra 

 had to do half of her work as well as his own. To his credit 

 it must be said that he did it willingly, and it was a pleasure to 

 see the way in which he relieved his invalid wife of the duties 

 which other Eskimo women perform. 



Otherwise Tullik was rather a complicated little piece of 

 humanity, differing very much from the majority of the 

 Eskimo women. One minute she was pleasant and kind, the 

 next she was a perfect fury. She was ambitious and wanted her 

 husband to be the first native in the country, and consequently 

 she pushed him along, making him do things which would never 



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