But I want to say again, at the risk of being misunderstood, that I hope no efforts will ever be made to civilize them.

Such efforts, if successful, would destroy their primitive communism, which is necessary to preserve their existence.

Once give them an idea of real-estate interest and personal-property rights in houses and food, and they might become as selfish as civilized beings; whereas now any game larger than a seal is the common property of the tribe and no man starves while his neighbors are gorging themselves.

If a man has two sets of hunting implements, he gives one of them to the man who has none.

It is this feeling of good-fellowship which alone preserves the race.