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shared the food and lodging of these Esquimaux,
They were a fat, oily, hospitable, dirty race, and vied
with each other in showing kindness to those who
had been thus thrown into their society. As Davie
Summers expressed it, “they were regular trumps ;”
and according to Buzzby’s opinion, “ they wos the
jolliest set o’ human walruses wot he had ever comed
across in all his travels; and he ought to know, for he
had always kep’ his weather-eye open, he had, and
wouldn’t give in on that pint, he wouldn’t, to no man

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