. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Food 99 girl Kanneyuk to stay behind and cook a trout for me while the rest went fishing. Kanneyuk lit a fire in the largest of our tents, but in the midst of her cooking a sudden gale of wind snapped the tent-pole and the tent collapsed on her head, upsetting the small pemmican can which served as a cooking pot. She moved to another tent and lit another fire, but it was not until three hours later that the cupful of water in which the fish was immersed approached the boiling-point, so feeble was the flame from the oka
. Report of the Canadian Arctic Expedition 1913-18. Scientific expeditions. Food 99 girl Kanneyuk to stay behind and cook a trout for me while the rest went fishing. Kanneyuk lit a fire in the largest of our tents, but in the midst of her cooking a sudden gale of wind snapped the tent-pole and the tent collapsed on her head, upsetting the small pemmican can which served as a cooking pot. She moved to another tent and lit another fire, but it was not until three hours later that the cupful of water in which the fish was immersed approached the boiling-point, so feeble was the flame from the okauyak fire; by that time too the fish was so smoked that it was scarcely Fig. 32. Haugak bringing in Dryas integrifolia for fuel, Colville hills It is no wonder therefore that the Eskimo frequently does not trouble to cook at all. Dried meat or fish gives him a satisfactory breakfast, and if he is fishing during the day he can always appease his hunger with the raw fish he catches. If the fish is large he will content himself with the intestines, if small he will probably devour it entire, sometimes not even excepting the bones. In winter the wife occasionally boils some seal-meat while her husband lies in bed, but frequently, more especially in the early half of the season when they still have a stock of frozen fish or caribou-meat on hand, they make their breakfast on that, after which both dress and the man goes off to his sealing while the wife stays at home and sews. Owing to their manner of life there are no set hours for meals. Breakfast is eaten as soon as they wake, then usually nothing more till the day's work is over. In winter, when it is certain that the sealers will return as soon as it grows dark, each wife has always a substantial meal ready for her husband, and the smell of boiling seal-meat and steaming broth strike his nostrils as soon as 23335—7i. Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images that may have been digitally enha
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