. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. ed, moving silently and majestically about as the sea-currents shifted those along of which theywere the images. In addition to all thisthere was a wall of water, so it appeared,far beyond the apparent horizon. This wallseemed alive with merry dancers of themost fantastic figures that the imaginationcould conceive, and it
. The uncivilized races of men in all countries of the world; being a comprehensive account of their manners and customs, and of their physical, social, mental, moral and religious characteristics. By Rev. J. G. With new designs by Angas, Danby, Wolf, 1871. ed, moving silently and majestically about as the sea-currents shifted those along of which theywere the images. In addition to all thisthere was a wall of water, so it appeared,far beyond the apparent horizon. This wallseemed alive with merry dancers of themost fantastic figures that the imaginationcould conceive, and its perpendicular col-umns were ever playfully changing. Oh,how exquisitely beautiful was this God-made, living wall! A thousand youthfulforms of the fairest outline seemed to bedancing to and fro, their white arms inter-twined, bodies incessantly varying, inter-mixing, falling, rising, jumping, skipping,hopping, whirling, waltzing, resting, andagain rushing to the mazy dance — nevertired — ever playful — ever light and airy,graceful, and soft to the eye. Such, then, is a brief account of the re-markable and interesting Innuit people —a people which, according to the observationof Captain Hall, are gradually dying out,and in a few more years will cease to
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