BY ESKIMO DOG-SLED 

 AND KAYAK 



CHAPTER I 



With the Harmony to Labrador Ramah The Happy Eskimos 

 The Messengers and their Food Eskimos on Board Landing 

 at Okak Aksunai The Eskimos at Work. 



THE beginning of this book is in the 

 cabin of a small steamer somewhere 

 on the North Atlantic Ocean. To be a 

 little more exact, the ship was the Harmony, 

 belonging to the Moravian Missions, of London, 

 and we were on our way to the coast of Labra- 

 dor. It was in the month of October, in the 

 year 1903 ; and if you have been upon the 

 Atlantic in October, even in a great liner, 

 you will know something about the roughness 

 of the sea. But the plucky little ship plunged 

 her nose into the waves, and shook her sturdy 

 shoulders like a dog, and rolled along in the 

 teeth of the winds that seemed always to be 

 howling. " Head winds," the captain called 

 them ; and it was not until afterwards, when 



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