A UNIQUE PEOPLE
OosnmofndOT Peary, in the latest instalment of his narrative in the March number of ".N'aah'a Magatino," again pays a high tribute to the Eskimos. He describes them as savages, yet not savage, without government, but not lawless; utterly uneducated. Ssfc exhibiting a remarkable degree of inUigenco: "In temperament, like children, with all a child's deligrht in little things, they are nevertheless enduring as the most mature of civilised men and women, and the best of them are faithful unto death. Without religion, and having no idea of Ood. they will snare their last meal with anyone who is hungry, while the aged and the helpless among them are taken care of as a matter of course. They are healthy and pure-blooded; they have no vices, no intoxicants, and no bad habits—not even Bumbling.** Altogether, in Commander Peary's opinion, they are a people unique upon the face of the earth.
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New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7111, 25 April 1910, Page 8
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152A UNIQUE PEOPLE New Zealand Times, Volume XXXII, Issue 7111, 25 April 1910, Page 8
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