The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . thereis one Supreme Being who created tho earth, sea, and stars ; and also a second-ary divinity, his daughter, who created all things having life, whether animalor vegetable. She is the tutelary deity of the Imiuits. They believe in a heavren and a hell, but have no very well defined ideas about them. According ty KTookoolito, heaven was upward ; it is light there all the time, and there are 119 K,ice or storms. Hell is downward; no sun there, but storms and snows all thpwhile; i
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . thereis one Supreme Being who created tho earth, sea, and stars ; and also a second-ary divinity, his daughter, who created all things having life, whether animalor vegetable. She is the tutelary deity of the Imiuits. They believe in a heavren and a hell, but have no very well defined ideas about them. According ty KTookoolito, heaven was upward ; it is light there all the time, and there are 119 K,ice or storms. Hell is downward; no sun there, but storms and snows all thpwhile; it is cold, and tliere is a great deal of ice there. xy one Avho has beepkilled by accident goes straight to heaven. They have a kind of priests, qrlather conjurers, called Angekos, whose business is to charm away sickness, Huand secure good hunting-seasons, with an abundance of seals, walrus, and dee% Mland an early disappearance of the ice. When his services are called for, he jpHiialways, like a wise man, careful to get his pay in advance, and it is generally B^. CHARLES FRANCIS HALL AND THE INNUITS. 461. FINDING THE DEAD. understood that the success of his incantations depends greatly upon tlieamount of his fee. Upon the Avhole, the Innuits must be regarded as an amiable and kindlypeople. They are exceedingly tender parents, ami not uiiaffectionate husbandsand wives. The main exception to their general kindness is their treatment ofthe aged and infirm. When one, especially a Avoman, is hopelessly sick or in-firm, she is not untrequently abandoned. Mr Hall relates several incidents ofthis kind which came within his own knowledge. In one case the husband,when he found that his wife was hopelessly sick of consumption, abandonedher, and took another while the poor creature Avas still alive. The desertedwoman lingered several weeks, su))])lied with food by the neighbors. In anoth-er case a sick woman, in the depth of winter, was left behind in an igloo, witha small quantity of pr
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