370 INDIANS AND ESKIMO. 



traveller, amid the ease and luxury of a London dwell- 

 ing house. 



We have thought it right to close this section with 

 a record of these strange yet powerful attractions, 

 common alike to the Indian and to the civilized man. 

 Such sentiments will always be found strongly devel- 

 oped among so-called savage races and the Eskimo, 

 and all the northern tribes who live along the shores 

 of the great frozen sea, are deeply imbued with them. 

 It is not that these regions are free from their known 

 and serious draw-backs. Even while admitting them 

 to the fullest extent, it is nevertheless clear that there 

 is still something amid the ice and snows of the great 

 northern winter, which is capable of engaging the 

 affections of every human beholder. 



So also in the animal world. Just as the Israelites 

 of old journeyed towards the promised land, so vast 

 herds of animals annually migrate, by long and painful 

 marches, from far off countries and sunnier climates, 

 to rest at length in peace, and bring forth their young 

 in these inaccessible wilds ; innumerable flocks of many 

 kinds of birds fly, as we have endeavoured to show, 

 literally for thousands of miles, from the southwards, 

 to come and nest in tranquillity amid the same, filling 

 the air with the voice of joy and gladness. 



Even in these far-off solitudes therefore, the wild 

 beauties and sublimity of Nature are not displayed in vain ; 

 for notwithstanding all the rigours of an arctic cli- 

 mate, they have lost nothing of their charms nothing 

 of their attractions nothing of their glory. 



