At Saint Michael's there is an Eskimo boy who draws remarkably
well, having taught himself by copying from the Illustrated
London News. He made a correct pen-and-ink drawing of the
Corwin, and another of the group of buildings at Saint
Michael's, which, though creditable in many respects, had the
defect of many Chinese pictures, being faulty in perspective. As
these drawings equal those in Dr. Rink's book, done by Greenland
artists, I regret my inability to reproduce them here. As
evidences of culture they show more advancement than the
carvings of English rustics that a clergyman has caused to be
placed on exhibition at the Kensington Museum. Sir John Ross
speaks highly of his interpreter as an artist; Beechy says that
the knowledge of the coast obtained by him from Innuit maps was
of the greatest value, while Hall and others show their
geographical knowledge to be as perfect as that possible of
attainment by civilized men unaided by instruments. I had
frequent opportunities to observe these Eskimo ideas of