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which I made to these alert Innuits, August, 1874, with sadness, in 

 this unfortunate connection, because they impressed me with their 

 manifest superiority over the savages of our northwest coast. They 

 seemed, then, to be living, during nine months of the year, almost 



" Newack " and " Oogack." 

 [St. Lawrence MaMemoots : pen portraits made at PoogoveUyak, August, 1674.] 



wholly upon the flesh and oil of the morse. Clean-limbed, bright- 

 eyed, and jovial, they profoundly impressed me with their happy 

 reliance and subsistence upon the walrus-herds of Bering Sea. I 

 could not help remarking then, that these people had never been 

 subjected to the temptations and subsequent sorrow of putting 



