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Show y,: BY PATH AND TRAIL. the fugitive Eskimos, the " Ka- Kaaks," whom he met at " Godsend Ledge, " where his ship was ice- locked and where fifty- seven of his dogs went mad from cold and died. These Indians were foul, verminized and filthy, and when he fed them raw meat and blubber ' i each slept after eating, his raw chunk lying beside him on the buf falo skin, and, as he awoke, his first act was to eat and the next to sleep again. They did not lie down, but slum bered away in a sitting posture, with the head resting on the breast." These savages were compelled by the intense cold of their northern home to cloth themselves and construct some sort of shelters, and even the Wissa family, or " leaf wearers," of Sir William Hunter, yielded to an instinct of shame, but the ' ' Digger Indians ' ' roamed en tirely naked and built no temporary or permanent shel ters. Their vermin infested hair drooped long over their faces and backs ; they were tanned, by unnumbered years of sun and wind exposure, to the hue of West Coast negroes, and, worst of all, they were victims of porno graphic and sexual indecencies pitiful in their destruct ive results. A member of ( Hondo's expedition and col ony of 1683, writing of Lower California, says: " We found the land inhabited by brutish, naked people, so-domitic, drunken and besotted." The noble savage of Dryden and Cooper is all right in poetry and romance, but the real man, when you meet him and know him, is indeed a creature to be pitied, against whom the elements have conspired and with whom circumstances have dealt harshly. God deliver us from the man of nature, unrestrained by fear of punish ment, unchecked by public opinion, by law or order, un tamed by social amenities, unawed by the gospel of the |