The Palatka daily news. (Palatka, Fla.) 1884-1888, 1885-10-04
HONEST ESQUIMAUX.
TE;IEVNG AMONG THEM ALMOST
WHOLLY UNKNOWN.
Absence of "Hogsishness Low Wages
but no SteaIing-A Communistic
Method of borrowing: Articles
in Case of Necessity.

After all, the Esquimaux do not seem to
have q very good idea Of comparative value
in their exchanges, the present necessity for
AID article governing them far more than
any other consideration. Ii a needle or a
nail or other cheap AMI simple article IS
needed at once fOx-skin or a blade OF
wbaIebone viii be willingly exchanged for
it. If they have it the value of the skin or
blade being enough IN civilization To supply
the tribe with these articles fora an indefinite
period For n summers work ON a whaler
about two nonths--they generally receive
a cheap breech- loading Gun bought i'll the
United States for from 81 t. s., anl - or
s.; worth of ammunition. Things on which
they have WORKED patiently for months they
will trade away for some civilized triIlket
that could not have occupied more than
few minutes in it, manufacture. Nor arc
they much mor5 cpnSiierats in their eX-
changes Of commodities with each other
AMI the most iacon .cru us payments ara
0itel ma II b. them.
never ssw any III play Of that charac-
feristic among Indian, AMI generally
known by tho aaslhetic title of "hogSi-h-
nes;" wherein liberal @jfa to one for an
article must 10 aided - ii purchasing the
"a - from auOther. r. prevent this suppo-
sitit;0us trait / determined at once to fix
stan lard Of value in 5Jt2ining dogs from
them. large number, OF which / needed for
my anticipate sioige urney, but, as /
had placed the remuneration bC pOOu EdLSN,
I never he'd occasion to wraHgle over it
with the1n In fact, such cuntentions
wholly unknown among these l. qumaux
in dealing with strangers or with each
other Even when several whalera are win
ring IN their vicinity. and one i unusually
~tinry III payments and Others consplcu-
. oy-,y generous. the former is not boy
cottsI7 altogether in the amount of meat,
furs. C. thing, and other material tAeJ have
for them ell
'Fhiovingc among thee Lanls is almost
wholly unknown, at tsiS has long been
their character. \ = a. "A explorin; expe-
dition that wintcrei among them over a
half century age, 4pelks of this virtue
among them. a small party of Esqui-
maux had built their igiop=, or snow-house,
near the ships Of tn, ezpedition-that is
two CT three mile di~taut-aui number
Of the white people visited them. Upon re-
turning to the ships one person noticed that
( ne had lost glove aut supp 'oei that 1t
might have been purloinel by the natives,
until one OF them, VINO had followed the
party returned the glove, having walked
the entire distance for that purpo O. Two
+ dogs were purcha-ed of them by one ships
crew. They disappeared night, and
suspicion naturally aroused, but the
next morning the two dog, were found Sc
. curely tied, e quimau method, on tine deck
OF the other ship After the dogs had
broken loose from one ship anI had returned
tn their village, their original owner had
/ brought them back in the night, ana by
/ mistake had returned them to the wrong
. vessel. Surely they carry out the Biblical
. injunction to avoid even the appearance of
/ al !, . r,o,,nar tI,at ,v,nll not stand with
-, IL - s.,.,,,, g.f,,iI,.,, ,,o-.ous
/ -, 7 r. +, -. -, - ,,ort,, ,,.,s
never careful 10 col.ec5 tools or other things
/ LETT around the house AMI do not now re-
call that we ever missed an article The
80, ,,,.,,ti, :, ,-,l,, - -r9I,, Nv
~ ~ ~, -, rn' III
- 81 a., $50, r., ~ IN,
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49, = rr.,,'., -. 1T, I'll for
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~ IN -. ,l at 49, 80, anou,b
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,,,,rf,a,. IF -. l',o nr,tactio, in a snow
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- In, :, : j., ,,, l,,, a. .,,r,,, two or
H.. ,,iIa. Iistor+ and fins no one was left
! r., s,,,.rI tla h.,.a r.nI .riu~ triaviu,, very
- m ~, ~ s,of,, onxtLi,., and
- 90 ~ 80 7'iIa1I
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r<i+ta1
r., ,,.,I- tim, ,,b,,, tI,a i,t,rrit,- Of any
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80 "a, -, 49,, ,,-r+b ~, Tn,,nit yv5o bora
~ 49, +i,,, i, this narticu1ar line
i, +b,, +rib, oItbourt, pona nf tben could
/ - = IN - ,;..,,lo., q, 70 any, sin,,Ia
- -; =. - w -. IL
- IN ~, s.,c.,,, t,,,,,s.s n tba time lint
yyhen summer came AMI the igloos had
melted the supposed stolen property was
found on the ground on the sit, of our old
.ro,x-boua AMI this sI1nDozeI CHARGE
/ AGAINST tn, FsoiIin.,u was thrown out Of
,our.. They have n method among them
saIves Of Lorrowine, articles in the most
/ ,,,,,,,,,,nisti,. wa, without any waste of
/ ,,I- I-,.lor ali circumstances however