. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Summer Life 135 July 14: The day was spent in fishing. The children caught a longspur with a noose of sinew. Mikinrok in the evening boiled some old deer-meat; it was full of maggots, but the Eskimos ate it with great content. July 15: We moved again to a bay at the north end of Lake Angmaloktok. July 16—19: Mosquitoes bothered us a great deal; the Eskimos flapped them from their faces with loon skins. We secured a fair number of fish at this place. Early in the morning of the 18th Higilak went to examine a fox-trap sh
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Summer Life 135 July 14: The day was spent in fishing. The children caught a longspur with a noose of sinew. Mikinrok in the evening boiled some old deer-meat; it was full of maggots, but the Eskimos ate it with great content. July 15: We moved again to a bay at the north end of Lake Angmaloktok. July 16—19: Mosquitoes bothered us a great deal; the Eskimos flapped them from their faces with loon skins. We secured a fair number of fish at this place. Early in the morning of the 18th Higilak went to examine a fox-trap she had set for sea-gulls, and saw several fish swimming in a large pool where a stream from the hillside entered one corner of the lake. She returned. Fig. 43. Avranna repairing his bow, ColviUe hills and told Ikpakhuak and Tutsik, who seized their spears and waded in after them, securing six. The following day, with Avranna, who had arrived with his family in the meantime, they repeated the process in another lake and speared 15. The water could not have been above 32° F., for all but this corner of the lake was still ice-bound, yet they waded about in it for fully half an hour, often immersed as high as their hips. It was impossible not to admire their endurance, for their sldns were blue with the cold. During the last three or four weeks only the heads of the fish were ever cooked (except for me), the bodies being dried and stored away for the winter. Higilak divined on the 16th. July 20: We moved to Kauwaktok 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 Canadian Arctic Expedition (1913-1918). Ottawa, F. A. Acland, Printer to the King
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