II.] 
THE POLAR RACES COMPARED, 
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Christian and able to read, and have learned to use and require a 
large number of the products of agriculture, commerce, and the 
industrial arts of the present day, as cotton and woollen cloth, 
tools of forged and cast iron, firearms, coffee, sugar, bread, &c. 
They are still nomads and hunters, but cannot be called savages ; 
and the educated European who has lived among them for a 
considerable time commonly acquires a liking for many points of 
SACRIFICIAL EMINENCE ON VAYGATS ISLAND. 
After a drawing by A. Hovgaard. 
their natural disposition and mode of life. JS'ext to them in 
civilisation come the Eskimo of North-western America, on 
whose originally rough life contact with the American whale- 
fishers appears to have had a very beneficial influence. I form 
my judgment from the Eskimo tribe at Port Clarence. The 
members of this tribe were still heathens, but a few of them 
were far travelled, and had brought home from the Sandwich 
