. Outing. on the water, while snowbunting and a sweet-singing sparrowabounded on land. It was glorious tosee this bright life again. It brought usinto touch with the great outside worldand nature. It broke the silence thathad brooded over the dead world for solong, and brought joy and lightness toour hearts. One incident fell under my observa-tion at Etah, too interesting to pass with-out mention. Shortly after my arrival,I engaged some Eskimo women to cleanthe musk-ox skins, and gave them pres-ents of food delicacies in return. Toone of them fell some musk-ox fat andmeat. While she was absent
. Outing. on the water, while snowbunting and a sweet-singing sparrowabounded on land. It was glorious tosee this bright life again. It brought usinto touch with the great outside worldand nature. It broke the silence thathad brooded over the dead world for solong, and brought joy and lightness toour hearts. One incident fell under my observa-tion at Etah, too interesting to pass with-out mention. Shortly after my arrival,I engaged some Eskimo women to cleanthe musk-ox skins, and gave them pres-ents of food delicacies in return. Toone of them fell some musk-ox fat andmeat. While she was absent from hertupek a dog—a big, fine fellow belong-ing to her husband—stole in and de-voured the meat and fat. Some of the children, returning in timeto see him gulp down the last tendermorsel, raised a cry that brought thewoman, who was a few hundred yardsaway, on the run. The children ex-plained to her what had happened. Sheat once secured a rope, fastened a slipknot around the dogs neck, passed the 405.
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