nature, for he can never [1/25] see any apparent distress without relieving it to the best of his ability, even at the cost of personal priva- tion. When taxed with being too easy in his dealings with the Eskimos, he replied "But what is to do? I can not see them hun- gry." As a tribe the Eskimos of Northwest Greenland, as the region from Melville Bay northward along the "American route to the Pole" is called, are an independent, self re- liant, kind hearted people, pos- essing some characteristics that are not excelled among the most highly civilized races or nations of the earth. One of the visiting party on board the Chett " was old [illegible] merkusax the last survivor of the Eskimo