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Show HOWE LIFE 'OF THE ESKIMOS They Are Without Education or Religion, Reli-gion, But a Fairly Weil-Behaved Lot. '-'Eskimos do not have even rudi- mcntary education." said Dr. P. D. Hunbury of London, England, who lifts just returned from a trip through the uninhabited regions of -v-..l!ie Arctic. -"As to religion," continued con-tinued Doctor Hanbury, "the Eskimos, Eski-mos, though very superstitious, have none. They do not believe in a Supreme Su-preme Being. "These people are obliging, and yvill do any moral thing for a white I ' man. They are very peaceably inclined, in-clined, and temper is almost unknown. un-known. As to their domestic life, you might say that of morals they have none. Still, the universal interchange inter-change of wives occasions no broils and bigamous wives in the same family are like sisters. The virtue .of the Eskimos consists in fondness -for children. "The settlements continue year after year at one location. About the middle of October the snow huts are built, and the walls fall early in May. The rest of the .year the col-riny col-riny lives in tents made of skins. The northern Eskimos have abso-. abso-. lutely none of the conveniences of " Civilization. The weapons they use in the hunt are tipped with bone or, more usually, with native copper, I which they work quite skilfully. I BowS and arrows and sealing spears, with hide canoes, constitute the out-' out-' fit. Vegetables are unknown in those latitudes and they subsist wholly on flesh and fish." |