The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . or northern endof this structure is a second low square tent, covered with double reindeerskins, the polog, which in winter serves both as the dining and bed room ofthe family. The Onkilon catch seals in a kind of net made of leather straps, which theyspread out under the ice, and in which the animal entangles itself Avith thehead or flippers. When the walrus, which is particularly abundant aboutKoliutschin Island, creeps on shore, they steal upon it unawares, cut oif its re-treat
The polar and tropical worlds : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe . or northern endof this structure is a second low square tent, covered with double reindeerskins, the polog, which in winter serves both as the dining and bed room ofthe family. The Onkilon catch seals in a kind of net made of leather straps, which theyspread out under the ice, and in which the animal entangles itself Avith thehead or flippers. When the walrus, which is particularly abundant aboutKoliutschin Island, creeps on shore, they steal upon it unawares, cut oif its re-treat, and kill it with their spears. Like the Esquimaux, they use dogs to dragtheir sledges. The number of the Tchuktchi is greater than one might expect to find inso sterile a country. According to the Russian missionaries, there -were, someyears back, 52 ulusses or villages of the Onkilon, with 1568 tents, and 10,000inhabitants; and Wrangell tells us tliat the Tennygk are at least twice as nu-merous, so that the entire population of the land of the Tchuktchi may possi-bly amount to 30,000. 268 THE POLAR AN ALEUT. CILVPTER XXV. BERING SEA—THE RUSSIAN FUR COMPANY—THE ALEUTS. Bering Sea.—Un:ilaska.—TIie Pribilow Islmds.—St. Matthew.—St. Laurence.—Berings Straits.—TheRus>i;iii Fur Compan}.—The Aleuts.—Their Ctiaracter.—Ihrir Skill and Intrepiditv in hunting theSea-otter.—The Sea-bear.—Whale-chasing.—Wahus-slaugliter.—The Sea-lion. T^EIIIXG SEA is extremel}^ interesting in a geographical point of view, as-*^ tlie temperature of its coasts and islands exhibits so striking a contrastwith that part of tlie Arctic Ocean which extends between Greenland, Iceland,Norway, and Spitzbergen, and affords us the most convincing proof of thebenefits we owe to the Gulf Stream, and to the mild south-westerlv windswhich sweep across the Atlantic. While through the sea between Icelandand Scotland, a part of the warmth generated ni the tropical zone penetratesby
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