Memoirs of Hans Moulrik. Written by Himself. Translated from the
Eskimo by Dr. Henry Flint. Edited by Professor D. G.
Stephens. (Trilbner).— Hans Hendrik is an Eskimo, born at Fiskernaos, one of the Danish settlements in South Greenland. He took service with Dr. Kane in the American expedition (1853-1855), and afterwards accompanied the expeditions of Hayes, Hall, and Naros. From all these commanders he earned good opinions. His account of himself is a literary curiosity of a very interesting kind, a genuine glimpse into a subject, of which, for the most part, civilised men know nothing. One noticeable thing is, the suspicion with which he seems to have regarded his fellow-travellers. Again and again he describes the agony of feta into which the banter of the sailors— who seem to have played upon his terrors—had thrown him. It would be well for the civilised to realise this suspicious habit in their dealings with the uncivilised.
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