Some
observers seem to think that their numbers are diminishing under the
evil influence of so-called civilization. But as every race participates
in the same moral nature, and the entire history of humanity, according
to Herder, is a series of events pointing to a higher destiny than has
yet been revealed, there is no reason why the sum of human happiness,
under proper auspices, should not be increased among the Innuit race.
Arch-deacon Kirkby, a Church of England clergyman who has lately visited
them in a missionary capacity as far as Boothia, speaks in the highest
terms of their intelligence and capacity for improvement. Here, then, is
a brilliant opportunity for some one full of propagandism and charity to
repeat the acts of the modern apostles and extend the influence of
civilization to the gay, lively, curious and talkative hyperboreans
whose home is under the midnight sun and on the borders of the Icy Sea.

[Illustration: WRANGEL ISLAND.

Journal, American Geographical Society, Vol. XV, 1883.

Bulletin N^o. 3. Rosse.]

FOOTNOTES:

[Footnote 1: In November, 1882, while in London, I met Mr. Gilder, the
_Herald_ correspondent, who accompanied the U.S. ship _Rodgers_, and he
showed me this record and paper which he had taken from the cairn during
a subsequent visit to the island.]

[Footnote 2: De Virginibus velandis. Lutetiae Parisiorum. 1675 f^o., p.
178.]

[Footnote 3: See Guy's Hospital Report, XIX, 1874; also "Histoire
Medicale du Tatouage," in Archives de Medecine Navale, Tom. 11 and 12,
Paris, 1869.]

[Footnote 4: Retzius, Finska Kranier, Stockholm: 1878.]

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