The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . destroyer among them ; but we can see no reason why this should be moreprevalent now than it was generations ago. It seems that in former times there were chiefs among the Innuits, but atthe present time there is no trace of any thing like government among each community there is usually some one wlio, from age, personal ]»rowess 464 THE POLAR OVEK THE ICE. as a hunter, or native shrewdness, is looked up to with respect, and liis opinionsare regarded with deferen
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . destroyer among them ; but we can see no reason why this should be moreprevalent now than it was generations ago. It seems that in former times there were chiefs among the Innuits, but atthe present time there is no trace of any thing like government among each community there is usually some one wlio, from age, personal ]»rowess 464 THE POLAR OVEK THE ICE. as a hunter, or native shrewdness, is looked up to with respect, and liis opinionsare regarded with deference; but he has no sort of authority except that wliicheacli peisoa voluntarily concedes to hiui. Wo left ]\Ir. Hall near the close of January, 1861, Avhen he was just return-ing to the ship after his first overland expedition. We do not pi-opose to fol-low him through the course of his personal narrative, although it abounds with•striking incidents and details of hardship and jjcril. Thus, one day in March,J(tlin Brown, one of the ships crew, in company with two Innuits, ;?^tarted offfrom an igloo a few miles distant to rejoin tlio ship. Somehow he got sepa-lated from his companions, but the next morning he had not arrived. The jiighthad been intensely cold, the thermometer marking 5 7 degrees below freezing-]ioint. A party of a dozen set off in the attempt to find him. In two hoursthey came upon the tracks of the wanderer, but only Hall and four otherscould hol
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