. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe . Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. Tlir. :;ti'.) urod on tlic lio door and 0 obli<jod to ility. When and protiVr loce of uu'iit boii*,'h \^iv[\\ .'I'tv like the they may In- igioiis beliff, Sitirit, wliilu â OiiSDU tlieir ' evil spirits, .'ar, wolf, ami -places, they nioiuiiuy hy rings +0 the being by the M\\l of deer- bte of future |li, crosses a ;o reach the beanties of s nnder the in water, n which it is s cnstoniary ssessed, and ition, to tlie
. The polar world [microform] : a popular description of man and nature in the Arctic and Antarctic regions of the globe . Arctic races; Zoology; Races arctiques; Zoologie. Tlir. :;ti'.) urod on tlic lio door and 0 obli<jod to ility. When and protiVr loce of uu'iit boii*,'h \^iv[\\ .'I'tv like the they may In- igioiis beliff, Sitirit, wliilu â OiiSDU tlieir ' evil spirits, .'ar, wolf, ami -places, they nioiuiiuy hy rings +0 the being by the M\\l of deer- bte of future |li, crosses a ;o reach the beanties of s nnder the in water, n which it is s cnstoniary ssessed, and ition, to tlie post. Tlie this absurd people in a so European 810, Roman Chepewyaus, 1 and write, eed of dogs, ited the con- dition of the females, and the introducticm of the horRO, vt^hich has morc^ recently taken [)la('e, holds out j)rospeets of a still vor high the reward may l;e that has been promised them on reacdiing their destination, as tho least whim suffices to make them forget their connuission. They ai'O generally content with one wife at a tinus and none but the chiefs have more than two. The successful wrestler takes the wife of his weaker conntrynian, who con- soles himself for his loss by endeavouring to lind one weaker than himself. Tender and affectionate parents, the Tinne are totally indifferent to tho sorrows of hel[dess age. During the stay of Hir George Back at Fort Reliance, an old woman arrivtd tliert' on Easter Sunday, chdhed in )-agged reindeer skins, worn down to a skeleton, and gras[)ing with both her hands a stick to support her body, bent double l)y age and want. The story of the poor creature was soon told. She had ])e- eonie a burden to her family; her former services had all been forgotten, and she had been told, 'that thongli she still seemed to live, she was in reality dead, and must be abandoned to her fate. In the new fort she might find assistance, for the Avhit(; strangers were powerfnl medicine-nnni.' This liad happened ;i month before, and all this
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