If a young man and woman are not suited with each other, they try again, and sometimes several times; but when they find mates to whom they are adapted, the arrangement is generally permanent.

If two men want to marry the same woman, they settle the question by a trial of strength, and the better man has his way.

These struggles are not fights, as the disputants are amiable; they are simply tests of wrestling, or sometimes of pounding each other on the arm to see which man can stand the pounding the longer.
Their fundamental acceptance of the proposition that might is right in such matters sometimes extends to a man saying to the husband of a woman: "I am the better man." In such case the husband has either to prove his superiority in strength, or yield the woman to the other.

If a man grows tired of his wife, he simply tells her there is not room for her in his igloo.

She may return to her parents, if they are living; she may go to a brother or a sister; or she may send word to some man in the tribe that she is now at liberty and is willing to start life again.
In these cases of primitive divorce, the husband keeps one or all of the children if he wants them; if not, the woman takes them with her.
[Illustration: ESKIMO MOTHER AND CHILD] The Eskimos do not have many children, two or three being the usual number.