. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. THE MOST SOUTHERN HOUSE ON THE GLOBE. the native huts around it in having a section of government stove-pipesticking through the roof, and in being lined with pine boards obtainedfrom the chief of the district at Upernavik. ]STo other house was per-mitted, to be as elegant as the governors, and by comparison with the restit might be called a palace. In the common houses the family and the dogs lived together, butthe governor had a separate residence for his dogs a short distance fromhis own. His house had a window, while the others had none ; a
. Adventures of two youths in the open Polar Sea. THE MOST SOUTHERN HOUSE ON THE GLOBE. the native huts around it in having a section of government stove-pipesticking through the roof, and in being lined with pine boards obtainedfrom the chief of the district at Upernavik. ]STo other house was per-mitted, to be as elegant as the governors, and by comparison with the restit might be called a palace. In the common houses the family and the dogs lived together, butthe governor had a separate residence for his dogs a short distance fromhis own. His house had a window, while the others had none ; and whilethe single room of his dwelling was sixteen feet by twenty, the others 2S2 THE VOYAGE OE THE A GREENLAND GOVERNOR. were only eight feet by twelve. The governor had no trouble to main-tain his authority with the few natives under his control. They paid thetaxes in oil and seal-skins with great promptness, and altogether conductedthemselves like well-disposed government purchases all thewhalebone, oil, narwhal-ivory, eider-down, and other products of the regionthat the natives have to sell, and paysfor them in money, or in goods from thestorehouses. And they do one thing which othergovernments might imitate to ad van-tage, said the major; they sell to thenative anything he wants in the way offood, clothing, tea, coffee, or other goods,with the single exception of spirits. Alltraffic in spirits is forbidden, and thusthe natives are not in such a condition of demoralization as those of the Siberian coast. It is a pity Russia willnot follow the example of Denmark, and forbid the traffic in spirits in herSiberian ports and among the natives. The rule of Denmark in Gree
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