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ESQUIMAUX LIFE. 
" The large family is a happy .^C^^fe^ 
one : so small a home could not )\ 
tolerate a quarrelsome mess. The 
sons, the men Cristiansens, brave 
and stalwart fellows, practiced in the kayack, and the 
sledge, and the whale-net, adroit with the harpoon and 
expert with the rifle, are constant at the chase, and 
bring home their spoil, with the honest pride becoming 
good providers of their household. And the women, 
in their nursing, cooking, tailoring, and housekeeping, 
are, I suppose, faithful enough. But what favorable 
impression that the mind gets through other channels 
can contend against the information of the nose ! Or- 
gan of the aristocracy, critic and magister morum of 
all civilization, censor that heeds neither argument nor 
remonstrance — the nose, alas ! it bids me record, that 
to all their possible godliness cleanliness is not super- 
added. 
" Dnring the short summer of daylight — it is one 
of the many apparent vestiges, among this people, of 
ancient nomadic habits — the whole family gather joy- 
