Note 14 — Chapter II · GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION OF SLAVERY.

Ribbach gives some notes on the Eskimos of Labrador. There is nothing on slavery in these notes. Describing their dwellings he says: “The principal family has of course the best place; the servants, widows or orphans, if there are such, have to content themselves with a place near the door, where the cold is most severe”14. This agrees so much with the foregoing descriptions, that we may suppose that the same state of things prevails here.