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not long ago, had lived far up Fox Channel and had crossed the 

 Strait with a number of others in an oniiak or large seal skin 

 boat. Another man who lived nearly two hundred miles to the 

 westward made the journey four times in the spring of 1886 travel- 

 ling nearly eight hundred miles with his wife and child, It is a 

 common thing to run down to Fort Chimo a distance, there and 

 return, of six hundred miles and a brother of my favorite Eskimo 

 Ugaluk returned in ten days as I received a dated letter written 

 on the day he stai'ted. 



In conclusion we may add that in spite of many revolting cus- 

 toms of the Eskimo, after living with them ■ for some time we are 

 forced to conclude that a civilized being transported to these regions 

 and living under the same circumstances would soon adopt much the 

 same mode of life. Remembering this and considering many fine 

 traits in their character, savages though they are, we cannot help look- 

 ing upon them as fellow beings in the same race for life, and 

 consequently loving them. 



