own children, and not unfrequently also carry them in their hoods to take care of them.  It is probably on this account that the dogs are always so much attached to the women, who can at any time catch them or entice them from the huts when the men fail.  Two females that were with young on board the Fury in the month of February, brought forth six and seven at a litter, and the former number were all females.  Their feeding, which, both in summer and winter, principally consists of k=a~ow, or the skin and part of the blubber of the walrus, is during the latter season very precarious, their masters having then but little to spare.  They therefore become extremely thin at that time of the year, and would scarcely be recognised as the same animals as when regularly fed in the summer.  No wonder, therefore, that they will eat almost anything, however tough or filthy, and that neither whipping nor shouting will prevent their turning out of the road, even when going at full speed, to pick up whatever they espy.  When at the huts they are constantly creeping in to pilfer what they can, and half the time of the people sitting there is occupied in vociferating their names, and driving them by most unmerciful blows out of the apartments.  The dogs have no water to drink during the winter, but lick up some clean snow occasionally as a substitute; nor, indeed, if water be offered them, do they care about it, unless it happens to be oily.  They take great pleasure in rolling in clean snow, especially after or during a journey, or when they have been confined in a house during the night.  Notwithstanding the rough treatment which they receive from their masters, their attachment to them is very great, and this they display after a short absence by jumping up and licking their faces all over with extreme delight.  The Esquimaux, however, never caress them, and, indeed, scarcely ever take any notice of them but when they offend, and they are not then sparing in their blows.  The dogs have all names, to which they attend with readiness, whether drawing in a sledge or otherwise.  Their names are frequently the same as those of the people, and in some instances are given after the relations of their masters, which seems to be considered an act of kindness among them.  Upon the whole, notwithstanding the services performed by these valuable creatures, I am of opinion that art cannot well have done less towards making them useful, and that the same means in almost any other hands would be employed to greater advantage.

In the disposition of these people, there was, of course, among so many individuals, considerable variety as to the minute points; but in the general features of their character, which with them are not subject to the changes produced by foreign intercourse, one description will nearly apply to all.