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Title: Juvenile Instructor
Year: 1891 (1890s)
Authors: George Quayle Cannon 1827 – 1901 Deseret Sunday School Union (1872-1971)
Subjects: Deseret Sunday School Union (1872-1971) -- Periodicals Church periodicals
Publisher: Salt Lake City George Q. Cannon Deseret Sunday School Union 1866-1929
Contributing Library: Church History Library, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints
Digitizing Sponsor: Corporation of the Presiding Bishop, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

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;l imai HABPOON1NO rHB UAL.LIFE AMONG THE ESQUIMAUX. \rfa, where that land is ill close proximity to the American continent and separated byrpHE people called Esquimaux are those who Behrings Strait. The country over which 1 li ive along the 1 oasts of the extreme north- they are scattered is thousands of miles in ex-ern part of America and some portion of J tent, but is not thickly populated. They live 106 THE JUVENILE; INSTRUCTOR. only along the coasts, where they collect insmall villages. These communities very oftenonly number about half a dozen families. mer is as cold as our winter, and their^winteris extremely severe. In truth they have nosummer. The climate in which they live is
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ESQUIMAUX AND THEIR DOGS. The most strange feature to us of the Esqui-maux life is that they are able to exist in sucha cold and barren country, where their sum- so cold that scarcely any vegetation growsthere. They have no trees to produce fruitto eat or fire to keep them warm. Vegetables THE JUVENILE INSTRUCTOR. 107 are unknown, and the only kind of grass thatis found there is a species of moss. My young readers will no doubt wonderhow people can live in such a place. Strangeas it may seem, the Esquimaux live, and thatquite happily, in this forbidding climate.They would not exchange their position forthe pleasant and comfortable homes whichyou enjoy, even if they had the opportunity. When we understand the habits and char- those who originally inhabited the Asiaticshores of the Arctic region. To give you an idea of the customs of thisstrange race 01 people let me sketch the lifeof an Esquimau. When a child is born, he or she, as the casemight be, is furnished with no clothing what-e

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