156 AN ESKIMO VILLAGE 



folk, and travelled and camped with them and had 

 the freedom of their homes, first the measles, and 

 then the dreaded influenza, has taken its heavy 

 toll. Little John (the wonderful pathfinder and 

 driver of sledges), Jako and Kornelius, Juliana, 

 Ernestina, and the others that are named in these 

 pages they are gone, and the village is well-nigh 

 forsaken. But perhaps it will come into its own 

 again who knows ? I hear of families going back, 

 because the hunting is so good ; and maybe in days 

 to come we shall see again the little children playing 

 by the brook and the women trampling at their 

 washing. 



But to me the village will always live. The people 

 there have left upon my mind a memory of kindli- 

 ness that years cannot wipe out ; and if I have 

 given the reader the same impression of a hospitable, 

 good-natured, easy-going folk, facing life with a 

 smile, then I have given what I feel to be a true 

 picture of those friends of mine, the Eskimos. 



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