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Identifier: polartropicalwor00hartuoft (find matches)
Title: The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe
Year: 1874 (1870s)
Authors: Hartwig, G. (Georg), 1813-1880 Guernsey, Alfred Hudson, 1824-1902
Subjects: Arctic peoples Natural history Antarctica Arctic regions Tropics
Publisher: Guelph, Ont. : J.W. Lyon
Contributing Library: Gerstein - University of Toronto
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INNUIT SUMMER VILLAGE. there are indications in the forni of trenches and excavations which show thatthey formerly led a more settled life, and constructed more permanent habita-tions. Their numbers have been gradually diminishing ever since they havecome ijito contact with the whites. IIow this comes to pass is a mystery.There is nothing to show that the climate has become more rigorous, or thatthe animals which constitute their food have grown scarcer or less easy of cap-ture. The Indians of America have been destroyed by the occupation of theirhunting-grounds, by whisky, and the small-pox, introduced by the whites. Thenatives of the South Sea Islands hav« been eaten up by nameless diseases, con-tracted from their licentious white visitors. There is scarcelv a trace of eitherdrunkenness or licentiousness among the Innuits. Consumption is the great CHARLES FRAXCIS HALL AXD THE INNUITS. 4G3 B C 2O HO ta S
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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 thern.iln each community there is usually some one wlio, from age, personal )»rowess 464 THE POLAR WORLD.

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  • bookyear:1874
  • bookdecade:1870
  • bookcentury:1800
  • bookauthor:Hartwig__G___Georg___1813_1880
  • bookauthor:Guernsey__Alfred_Hudson__1824_1902
  • booksubject:Arctic_peoples
  • booksubject:Natural_history
  • booksubject:Antarctica
  • booksubject:Arctic_regions
  • booksubject:Tropics
  • bookpublisher:Guelph__Ont____J_W__Lyon
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  • booksponsor:MSN
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