CHAPTER II 



Living iu teuts Tents and dogs Bob's tent The tent-stones 

 A teut in a tangle Bob's family Bob's boots In the rain 

 Old Tuglavi. 



THE first missionaries who went to 

 Labrador, now nearly a hundred and 

 fifty years ago, must have found 

 their work made all the more difficult by the 

 way in which the Eskimos are used to wander 

 from one place to another. But the mission- 

 aries made the best of it : they built their 

 churches where the people had their winter 

 homes, and so there came to be a number of 

 what we might call mission villages here and 

 there along the coast. It is much the same 

 to-day as it was in those olden times : the 

 Eskimos spend the winter in their wooden 

 huts, within sound of the church bell and with- 

 in reach of the mission store ; but when 

 winter is over they go off to some favourite 

 hunting or fishing-place of their own, and live 

 in tents. 



Tents are ideal summer dwellings for a 

 people who are, at heart, wanderers ; and the 



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