178 VIKINGS OF TO-DAY 



view should be unobstructed. In a small cache 

 alongside the above grave were two wooden figures 

 of females, an ivory harpoon head and the remains 

 of the shaft, the skin-cleaning instruments, and the 

 remains of a stone lamp. 



In another, further south, I found an iron sword 

 about three feet long, used for cutting snow blocks 

 for snow houses, a dagger with a curved blade, 

 a clasp knife, an old pot of iron, a nail or needle 

 case, a lead buckle silvered over, a whetstone, and 

 a few other simple household implements, while in 

 each case the remains of the kayak or canoe, the 

 paddle and the harpoon were lying near. 



The skipper of a Newfoundland vessel told me 

 how one of his men took some frankincense from 

 one of these graves. That night the crew were 

 startled by one of the hands shouting out, " There 

 is a man in the cabin ! " though it was all dark 

 at the time. A lamp was lit, and the same man 

 shouted, " There he goes, up the hatchway!" The 

 others chaffed him and blew out the light. Very 

 soon shouts were again heard, " There he is, an Es- 

 kimo, searching in Tom's bunk." After that the 

 lamp was kept lighted, and next day the grave was 

 restored. 



The early Moravian missionaries found it very 

 difficult to convey to the Eskimo the Bible teach- 

 ings of our Saviour's love and of God as our 

 Father. They had no word for love; neither sheep 

 nor lambs, seed-time nor harvest, silver nor gold 



