The life and work of the among the Eskimos . thatof Hans Egede and the Moravians of the eighteenthcentury among the Eskimos of Greenland. But the sojourn of a new white man at the tradingsettlement called forth much comment from amongthe Eskimos, and especially among those who wereconstantly coming in for barter. They knew theCompanys agents as men who had goods forexchange. But here was another most extraordinaryagent who had no merchandise for traffic, but merelya wondrous message from which self-interest seemedto be entirely absent. Ho ! come, buy withoutmoney and without price !
The life and work of the among the Eskimos . thatof Hans Egede and the Moravians of the eighteenthcentury among the Eskimos of Greenland. But the sojourn of a new white man at the tradingsettlement called forth much comment from amongthe Eskimos, and especially among those who wereconstantly coming in for barter. They knew theCompanys agents as men who had goods forexchange. But here was another most extraordinaryagent who had no merchandise for traffic, but merelya wondrous message from which self-interest seemedto be entirely absent. Ho ! come, buy withoutmoney and without price ! Many were the surmises made by these heathenas to the origin of so strange a being. Where had hecome from ? Why had he come ? etc. Once, when speaking to a party of these people,Mr. Peck says, I overheard a few of the newest-comers asking some of those who had first arrivedwhere I came from. One of the questioned, in the most sincere andsimple manner, replied : He fell down from heavento save the Eskimos. Many of them, when I entered their dwellings,. atS > <! S a-i PROGRESS 91 would say to me : Thou art good to come to suchloathsome creatures as we are ! referring to theirpeculiarly dirty dwellings and surroundings. Others again would say : This is our father ; hehas come to save us ! Their inquiries about my country and my condi-tion were also sometimes very amusing. Some ofthe ladies were most desirous of knowing whetherI was a married man or not. I remember the blank amaze depicted upon theface of an Eskimo when I told him that in mycountry the sea was not frozen over, and that wehad but little snow. Their manifested surprise when they enteredmy little house, and beheld the many articles theireyes had never looked upon before, was very looking-glass was a source of intense interest aswell as amusement. I remember one unusually grimy party of thisfar from cleanly race entering my little is no exaggeration to say that some of themwere coated with
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