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are of opinion, that they shall require their im¬ 
plements for their maintenance after death*. 
The highest virtue, in the opinion of many Es¬ 
quimaux, consisting in a dexterous, successful, and 
industrious application to the business of hunt¬ 
ing, &c.—and the best of their enjoyments, in 
connection with the support of life, being derived 
from the produce of their sealing and hunting,_ 
they rest their title to happiness, in another state 
of existence, to the greatness of their exploits, or 
to the hardships they may have suffered ; and 
they make the enjoyments of their Elysium, to 
consist in a perpetual day and endless summer; 
and, above all, in “ an exuberance of fowls, fishes, 
rein-deer, and their beloved seals,” which are to be 
caught without toil f. Some, indeed, believe that 
these animals will be provided, and cooked for 
them, without any care of their own ; but others, 
less sanguine in their expectations, consider that 
they shall require their spears and darts to kill 
them (which are, therefore, buried along with 
them, when they die), but that they will be in 
such abundance as to render the capture of them 
rather an occupation of pleasure than of labour. 
In some of the graves that we examined, pieces 
* Chantz's Hist, of Greenland, vol. i. p. 237- 
+ Ibid. vol. i. p. 201. 
