. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. SIBERIA IOI. the Arctic Ocean sometimes stop here and corrupt them with bad morals and villainous whiskey. Throughout the village seals and seal oil, reindeer skins, walrus hides,and blubber were most in evidence. Back of the tent I saw a deep, partly covered pit in the ground, nearly filled with oil, and a few rods farther off oth- ers were seen. The bones of whales served instead of tim- bers in most of the rude struc- tures. The win- ter houses were built by stand- ing up a circle of whale ribs about two feet apart, and filling up the in
. Alaska ... Natural history; Scientific expeditions. SIBERIA IOI. the Arctic Ocean sometimes stop here and corrupt them with bad morals and villainous whiskey. Throughout the village seals and seal oil, reindeer skins, walrus hides,and blubber were most in evidence. Back of the tent I saw a deep, partly covered pit in the ground, nearly filled with oil, and a few rods farther off oth- ers were seen. The bones of whales served instead of tim- bers in most of the rude struc- tures. The win- ter houses were built by stand- ing up a circle of whale ribs about two feet apart, and filling up the in- terstices with turf, making a wall two feet thick. For a roof they used walrus hides, resting upon poles. In my walk over this crescent of land I came here and there upon the huge vertebrae of whales, scattered about and looking like the gray weather-worn granite boulders on a New England farm. Beyond the present site of the encampment I saw the ruins of an older or earlier village, the foundations of whale bones partly overgrown by the turf. As we came in at one end of the encampment most of the dogs went out at the other end. They had never seen such looking creatures, and they fled off toward the mountain, where they sat down and howled their mournful protest. Some of the children were frightened too; one youngster of five or six years, stuffed like a small scare- GROUP OF ESKIMOS, PLOVER Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enhanced for readability - coloration and appearance of these illustrations may not perfectly resemble the original Harriman Alaska Expedition (1899); Harriman, Edward Henry, 1848-1909; Merriam, C. Hart (Clinton Hart), 1855-1942; Washington Academy of Sciences (Washington, D. C. ). New York, Doubleday, Page & Company
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