It will easily be seen how valuable and useful a quality this has proved for the purposes of the arctic explorer.

If he could not rely on the Eskimo to do the white man's work with the white man's tools, the labors of the arctic traveler would be tremendously increased and the size of his expedition would have to be enlarged to limits that might be found unwieldy in the extreme.
[Illustration: KUDLAH, ALIAS "MISFORTUNE," WITH PUPPIES] My own observations of this interesting people have taught me to repose no confidence whatever in the tales of barbaric craft and cruelty which I have heard of them.

On the contrary, taking into consideration their uncivilized state, they must be ranked as a humane people.

Moreover, they have always been quick to grasp the purposes that I have had in view and to bend their energies toward achieving the ends for which my expeditions have been striving.
Their humanity, as has been indicated, takes a form that would delight a socialist.

They are generous and hospitable in a crude way, almost without exception.