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of the natives to Captain Ross that one mass was composed princi-
pally of a black rock containing iron in the shape of small
nodules imbedded in it, was a mis-interpretation. The hard, dark
rock mentioned by the natives, a piece of which they gave Ross,
was a piece of one of the trap cobbles used in h ammering off
flakes of the iron, and not a portion of the rocky matrix enclos-
ing the iron. For several generations, probably from the time of
the wintering of the "North Star" or possibly earlier, no use has
been made of the iron of these aerolites by the natves;they prob-
ably obtaining their scant supply of knives from the whalers and
expedition ships visiting their coast or beset in the ice off
Cape York.
Surprise at finding these little Hyperboreans on a par
with the Greeks, the Romans, the Cathaginians, and the devotees
of Buddha, in their possession of a "Heaven-stone" is almost
startling in its intensity; yet surprise gives way to admiration
as we note the sshrewdness of these brown hunters of the "Great
Night". The savage stress of natural environment in which the
Creator placed them to struggle for existence, left them no room
for any S uch Platonic manifestations as worship of the celestial
guests. A Diana of Ephesus or Venus of Cyprus would be utterly
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