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the body was put in, and the grave filled up with 

 sand. An hour later not a sign remained to mark 

 the spot. It would never suggest itself to them to 

 visit it. 



In 1790, Cartwright, falling in love with an Eskimo 

 girl, asked her hand from her husband Eketcheak, 

 who had another wife himself. The reply was, " She 

 is no good to work. Have this one and her two 

 children." Cartwright declined, saying he preferred 

 the younger. " Take them all then," said the gener- 

 ous husband. Cartwright explained he did not wish 

 to trespass too much on his kindness. " Oh, you 

 can give them back at the end of the year if you 

 don't want to keep them." 



While we were in Okkak, an elderly squaw came 

 to be treated for shaking of the knees. It appeared 

 that she had never before seen a steamboat, and had 

 received a severe fright at the arrival of the Princess 

 May ; for she thought it was a man-of-war come to 

 punish her son Rudolph, who some time previously 

 had shot his wife, being tired of her. Since that in- 

 cident Rudolph had become a Christian, but, as his 

 crime was still unpunished, by Moravian rule he 

 could not be admitted to their communion. 



Remorse seemed to have seized him, and his one 

 desire now was that his crime might be expiated 

 by receiving its punishment at the hand of man. 

 Naturally his mother was anxious. 



This lack of emotion seems to prevent a due ap- 

 preciation of the principle of se^-sa orifice. Thus, 



