﻿NATIVES 
  OF 
  ARCTIC 
  REGIONS. 
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  the 
  more 
  temperate 
  regions 
  of 
  the 
  globe. 
  

   So 
  long 
  as 
  they 
  were 
  still 
  in 
  those 
  

   regions, 
  the 
  ancestors 
  of 
  the 
  Eskimo 
  must 
  

   have 
  lived 
  in 
  another 
  manner, 
  and 
  must 
  have 
  

   had 
  wholly 
  different 
  habits. 
  They 
  may 
  

   have 
  practised 
  such 
  simple 
  agriculture 
  as 
  

   we 
  know 
  was 
  practised 
  among 
  the 
  most 
  

   ancient 
  people 
  who 
  have 
  left 
  their 
  remains 
  

   in 
  the 
  Swiss 
  Lake 
  Dwellings. 
  They 
  may 
  

   have 
  been 
  nomads 
  living 
  on 
  their 
  flocks 
  

   and 
  herds. 
  But 
  neither 
  an 
  agricultural 
  nor 
  a 
  

   pastoral 
  life 
  is 
  possible 
  on 
  the 
  borders 
  of 
  a 
  

   frozen 
  sea. 
  The 
  rigours 
  of 
  the 
  region 
  they 
  

   now 
  inhabit 
  have 
  reduced 
  this 
  people 
  to 
  the 
  

   condition 
  in 
  which 
  we 
  now 
  see 
  them, 
  and 
  

   whatever 
  arts 
  their 
  fathers 
  knew, 
  suited 
  to 
  

   more 
  genial 
  climates, 
  have 
  been, 
  and 
  could 
  

  

  