164 PRIMEVAL MAN. 



Inuit hunter.* And when at last his prey 

 is struck, it is his luxury to feast upon the 

 raw blood and blubber. To civilized Man it 

 is hardly possible to conceive a life so 

 wretched, and in many respects so brutal 

 as the life led by this race during the long 

 lasting night of the arctic winter. Not even 

 the most extravagant theorist as regards 

 the plurality of Human Origins, can suppose 

 that there was an Eskimo Adam — that any 

 man was originally created or developed in 

 the icy regions round the Pole. Here then 

 we have a case beyond all question, of 

 races driven by wars and migrations, from 



* Very curious details on Eskimo hunting, feasting, and 

 habits generally are given in Captain C. F. Hall's most 

 interesting work, "Life with the Esquimaux." (Sampson 

 Low, Son, & Marston. 1864.) 



