Children are affectionately treated, and according to one traveller are “never scolded or whipped.” Sometimes it has been said that people of certain tribes kill their children; such a dreadful proceeding is extremely rare, and happens only when food is very scarce. The Greenland Eskimo say that if a child were killed, its spirit would come back to haunt them. Some people are unable to provide food for the children, then the youngsters are adopted by a relative or friend. Among the Eskimo there are no slaves, some reasons being that time is fully occupied in hunting; journeys are difficult, also the Eskimo are naturally peaceable and kind, so it comes to pass that warfare is almost unknown, and captives are not taken. Servants there are, usually cripples or unfortunate men who have lost their dogs, sledges, and hunting apparatus. The Eskimo have some religious ideas concerning a good spirit “Sedna,” to whom they pray for success in hunting. This goddess is supposed to have created all animal life, and her special care is the protection of Eskimo people, who have many stories and legends concerning the goodness and bounty of their protectress. Almost all people believe that there is some part of a man which lives after the body is dead, and the Eskimo are no exception to the general rule, for they have distinct ideas of heaven ruled over by Sedna. As a matter of fact, there are thought to be four heavens, or at any rate four stages through which the soul has to travel before it reaches the “good land” where it will be for ever happy. Some people are not good enough to go to the “good land” where summer is continuous, so they wander about in the first three stages of the journey; and so low is the roof of each of these first stages, that a man has to bend very low all the time he is travelling. The Eskimo have some very clear rules for the division of game and the restoration of lost property to its owner, but there are no kings, chiefs, judges, or law courts, so justice and punishment are in the hands of the whole settlement. Murder is not common, but when it does occur there is a terrible blood feud between the two families, and thirst for revenge may continue for many, many years, unless the murderer, or one of his relatives, is killed as a punishment for the crime.