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  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.) 
  

  

  