﻿THE 
  ESKIMO 
  RACE. 
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  extremities 
  of 
  its 
  great 
  Continents, 
  and 
  in 
  the 
  

   distant 
  Islands 
  which 
  would 
  be 
  the 
  last 
  refuge 
  

   of 
  the 
  victims 
  of 
  violence 
  and 
  misfortune 
  ? 
  

   "The 
  New 
  World 
  " 
  is 
  the 
  Continent 
  which 
  

   presents 
  the 
  most 
  uninterrupted 
  stretch 
  of 
  

   habitable 
  land 
  from 
  the 
  highest 
  northern 
  to 
  

   the 
  lowest 
  southern 
  latitude. 
  On 
  the 
  extreme 
  

   north 
  we 
  have 
  the 
  Eskimo,* 
  or 
  Inuit 
  race, 
  

   maintaining 
  human 
  life 
  under 
  conditions 
  of 
  

   extremest 
  hardship, 
  even 
  amid 
  the 
  perpetual 
  

   ice 
  of 
  the 
  Polar 
  Seas. 
  And 
  what 
  a 
  life 
  it 
  

   is 
  ! 
  Watching 
  at 
  the 
  blow-hole 
  of 
  a 
  seal 
  for 
  

   many 
  hours, 
  in 
  a 
  temperature 
  of 
  75 
  below 
  

   freezing 
  point, 
  is 
  the 
  constant 
  work 
  of 
  the 
  

  

  * 
  I 
  have 
  adopted 
  the 
  form 
  of 
  this 
  name 
  (usually 
  spelt 
  

   Esquimaux), 
  which 
  is 
  adopted 
  as 
  the 
  most 
  correct 
  by 
  Sir 
  J. 
  

   Richardson 
  in 
  his 
  work 
  on 
  the 
  Polar 
  Seas. 
  "Inuit" 
  is 
  the 
  

   native 
  Eskimo 
  name 
  for 
  their 
  own 
  race. 
  

  

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