Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . A Herd of Reindeer at Teller Station, Esk to accumulate evidences of the fact that we are drawing into ArcticAlaska. Occasional slabs of floating sheet ice, which have drifted downfrom the ocean suggest this, and when we reach the mouth of theKuskokwim river and iind the natives living on the blubbers of thewalrus and beluga whale, on salmon, black and blue berries soaked inseal oil and packed in bladders, on carrion salmon buried in the frozenground, when we see such things the fact is further impressed upon u=The whalers, searching
Alaska, its waters, land and life; an illustrated lecture . A Herd of Reindeer at Teller Station, Esk to accumulate evidences of the fact that we are drawing into ArcticAlaska. Occasional slabs of floating sheet ice, which have drifted downfrom the ocean suggest this, and when we reach the mouth of theKuskokwim river and iind the natives living on the blubbers of thewalrus and beluga whale, on salmon, black and blue berries soaked inseal oil and packed in bladders, on carrion salmon buried in the frozenground, when we see such things the fact is further impressed upon u=The whalers, searching the seas for the baleen of the cetacean andfor the ivory of the walrus, have well nigh ridded the northernwaters of these species. And as the numbers of these have -^j been depleted the food supply of the natives has accordmghdecreased. Starvation has more than once visitedthe slothful, harmless Eskimo who inhabit the bleakslopes of the Bering Sea, and the total disappearanceof the aboriginal Alaskan would necessarily followthe passing of the creaturesof
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