AIAK' AND ITS APPURTENANCES                           30

  IV.   THE ESKIMO AT SEA                                           56

  V.    WINTER-HOUSES, TENTS, WOMAN-BOATS, AND EXCURSIONS           78

  VI.   COOKERY AND DAINTIES                                        89

  VII.  CHARACTER AND SOCIAL CONDITIONS                            100

  VIII. THE POSITION AND WORK OF WOMEN                             121

  IX.   LOVE AND MARRIAGE                                          138

  X.    MORALS                                                     157

  XI.   JUDICIAL PROCEEDINGS--DRUM-DANCES AND ENTERTAINMENTS       186

  XII.  MENTAL GIFTS--ART--MUSIC--POETRY--ESKIMO NARRATIVES        193

  XIII. RELIGIOUS IDEAS                                            209

  XIV.  THE INTRODUCTION OF CHRISTIANITY                           301

  XV.   EUROPEANS AND NATIVES                                      313

  XVI.  WHAT HAVE WE ACHIEVED?                                     327

  XVII. CONCLUSION                                                 341




LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS.

_PLATES._


  A HUNTER, HIS WIFE, AND A YOUNG GIRL (WEST
  COAST OF GREENLAND)                                   _Frontispiece_

  'THE BOUNDLESS SNOW-FIELDS STRETCHING CALM
   AND WHITE FROM SEA TO SEA'                        _to face page_  2

  COVERING A KAIAK                                      "     "     32

  'THE HEAD TURNED HALF BACKWARDS TO WATCH
   THE SEAS'                                            "     "     58

  SEAWARD IN SEARCH OF SEALS                            "     "     60

  SEAL-HUNTING                                          "     "     62

  BEFORE THE WIND                                       "     "     66

  A KAIAK-MAN RESCUING A COMRADE                        "     "     68

  A KAIAK-MAN ATTACKED BY A WALRUS                      "     "     74

  HALIBUT-FISHING                                       "     "     76

  AN ESKIMO CAMP                                        "     "     84

  A SUMMER JOURNEY