E. B. Delaba/rre, Ph. D. i6i 



{d) Anthropology. — We made no contributions to 

 knowledge in this line, but brought back with us a few 

 articles illustrative of the present and past life of the 

 Eskimos. To the Peabody Museum of Harvard University 

 we presented a large and unusually interesting ancient stone 

 lamp and a pair of fire-stones; and to the Anthropological 

 Museum of Brown University a number of medicine-charms 

 (said by Mr. Ford to have been presented to him by an 

 Eskimo chief, Idualuk, from Akpatok Island, who at one 

 time practiced cannibalism), and of grave relics, the latter in- 

 cluding ancient stone lamps, cooking pots, knives and 

 scraping tools, bird-darts, harpoon points, etc. The fire- 

 stones are of a type new to us. They are two small, round 

 stones of soft material, in which are embedded great num- 

 bers of minute fragments of iron pyrites. In use, accord- 

 ing to Mr. Townley, the missionary at Hebron, who gave 

 them to us, these stones are knocked together rapidly over a 

 quantity of the cotton from a plant common in that country 

 {Eriophonim, of which there are several species). Fine 

 particles, warmed by the knocking process, fall from the 

 stones into the cotton, which is then rubbed and blown into 

 a blaze. 



{e) Psychology. — While our stay was too short and 

 our acquaintance with the people of the coast too super- 

 ficial to permit of the gathering of any new facts of value 

 in regard to their character and mental habits, yet from ob- 

 servation and conversation we gained a fairly good impres- 

 sion of the general nature and conditions of life there; and 

 I have endeavored to give expression to this impression in 

 the preceding section. 



{f) Entomology. — There was no one in our party 



