ODD CUSTOMS OF AN ODD PEOPLE Hard as is the life of the Eskimo, his end is usually as rigorous.

All his life he is engaged in constant warfare with the inhospitable elements of his country, and Death, when it arrives, usually comes in some violent form.

Old age has few terrors for the Eskimo, for he seldom lives to reach it.

He dies, as a rule, in harness, drowned by the capsizing of his skin canoe, caught by the overturning of an iceberg, or crushed by a snow-slide or a rock-slide.

It is seldom that an Eskimo lives to be more than sixty years of age.
Strictly speaking, the Eskimos have no religion, in the sense in which we use the word.