Life and work of the Rev. E.J. Peck among the Eskimos (1904) (14780802851)

Identifier: lifeworkofrevejp00lewi (find matches)
Title: Life and work of the Rev. E.J. Peck among the Eskimos
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Lewis, Arthur, 1854-1951
Subjects: Peck, Edmund James, 1850- Eskimos
Publisher: New York, A.C. Armstrong & Son
Contributing Library: School of Theology, Boston University
Digitizing Sponsor: Boston Library Consortium Member Libraries



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PROGRESS 91 would say to me : Thou art good to come to suchloathsome creatures as we are ! referring to theirpeculiarly dirty dwellings and surroundings. Others again would say : This is our father ; hehas come to save us ! Their inquiries about my country and my condi-tion were also sometimes very amusing. Some ofthe ladies were most desirous of knowing whetherI was a married man or not. I remember the blank amaze depicted upon theface of an Eskimo when I told him that in mycountry the sea was not frozen over, and that wehad but little snow. Their manifested surprise when they enteredmy little house, and beheld the many articles theireyes had never looked upon before, was very great.A looking-glass was a source of intense interest aswell as amusement. I remember one unusually grimy party of thisfar from cleanly race entering my little habitation.It is no exaggeration to say that somie of themwere coated with dirt and grease—wore hides of it. Taking them to the looking-glass I invit