Rae's report caused much distress and anger . and that an Englishman was able to " survive anywhere " and " to triumph over any adversity through faith, scientific objectivity, and superior spirit . " Dickens not only wrote to discredit the Inuit evidence, he attacked the Inuit character, writing : " We believe every savage in his heart covetous, treacherous, and cruel : and we have yet to learn what knowledge the white man lost, houseless, shipless, apparently forgotten by his race, plainly famine-stricken, weak, frozen and dying has of the gentleness of Exquimaux nature ."
