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THE FAREWELL. 
Nessark, Marsumah, Erkee, and the half-grown boys, 
have been our chief laborers; but women, children, and 
dogs are all bearing their part. 
“Whatever may have been the faults of these Esqui¬ 
maux heretofore, stealing was the only grave one. 
Treachery they may have conceived; and I have reason 
to believe that, under superstitious fears of an evil 
influence from our presence, they would at one time 
have been glad to destroy us. But the day of all this 
has passed away. When trouble came to us and to 
them, and we bent ourselves to their habits,—when 
we looked to them to procure us fresh meat, and they 
found at our poor Oomiak-soak shelter and protection 
during their wild bcar-liunts,—then we were so blended 
in our interests as well as modes of life that every 
trace of enmity wore away. God knows that since 
they professed friendship, albeit the imaginary powers 
of the angekok-soak and the marvellous six-shooter 
which attested them may have had their influence, 
never have friends been more true. Although, since 
Olxlsen’s death, numberless articles of inestimable value 
to them have been scattered upon the ice unwatched, 
they have not stolen a nail. It was only yesterday 
that Mctek, upon my alluding to the manner in which 
property of all sorts was exposed without pilfering, ex¬ 
plained through Petersen, in these two short sentences, 
the argument of their morality:— 
“‘You have done us good. We are not hungry; we 
will not take, (steal.)-You have done us good; we 
want to help you: we are friends.’ ” 
