. Sketch of the North-West of America [microform]. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Indians of North America; Zoology; Indiens; Zoologie. jj^ji Hi. 140 Ice makes a house in which doubtless there reigns squalor and dis- comfort, but which, from its nature, admits light from without, and at Iht; time screens its occupants against wind and storms and the rigors of a climate without parallel. The flesh of seals feeds the family ; their skins clothe them, and their oil supplies the lamp, whose wick of moss on a stone, or the frozen floor, sheds a dim light. This is their o
. Sketch of the North-West of America [microform]. Hudson's Bay Company; Compagnie de la Baie d'Hudson; Indians of North America; Zoology; Indiens; Zoologie. jj^ji Hi. 140 Ice makes a house in which doubtless there reigns squalor and dis- comfort, but which, from its nature, admits light from without, and at Iht; time screens its occupants against wind and storms and the rigors of a climate without parallel. The flesh of seals feeds the family ; their skins clothe them, and their oil supplies the lamp, whose wick of moss on a stone, or the frozen floor, sheds a dim light. This is their only light, and their only fuel. There live beings very low, no doubt, in the scale of humanity, deserving (rfall our compassion and our interest: beings in whom shine rays of intelligence, and in whose bosoms throb feeling and loving hearts. The mother bestows affectionate kisses on her cherished infant, and, in the absence of all other means, clothts it with affection, solicitude and a little moss. There is the eye of man which cannot contemplate the splendor of the sun that is hidden from view for many months of the year, in the midst of nature which shews neither flower, verdure, nor vegetation, but is always clothed in a death shroud— there, the eye of man rests with sweet emotion on those whom he loves, and whom, in his language as in ours, he calls father, mother, husband, wife, child, brother, sister, friend ! These family ties unite beings who appear to have no other source of enjoy- ment. How great is their need of this feeling, to enable them to experi- ence some joy here below ! For, let us declare it, the enthusiasm of certain poets is very absurd when, in prose oftener than in verse, they paint the well-being of Esquimaux and other Indians, from the dreams of their imagination, and not from a true knowledge of their actual condition. I have said that the Esquimaux who visit Churchill are very gentle, I will add that now, for some time, they have had trading relat
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