. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. Kskimo skimiiiiK a nearded Heal. ICrifjnatlius ^; Fiaiikliii ]!;i\-. 'I" sequent ability to give more. The native "gentle- man of the old school" finds his highest delight in seeing his friends eat at his table, or rather dine on the floor of his iglu or tupek, and in camps where food is abundant life seems to be one continual round of eating. Taking Herschel Island in summer as an ex- ample, we find large numbers of families camped on the beach waiting for the trading ships, and in the meantime living largely on fi
. The Canadian field-naturalist. Natural history. Kskimo skimiiiiK a nearded Heal. ICrifjnatlius ^; Fiaiikliii ]!;i\-. 'I" sequent ability to give more. The native "gentle- man of the old school" finds his highest delight in seeing his friends eat at his table, or rather dine on the floor of his iglu or tupek, and in camps where food is abundant life seems to be one continual round of eating. Taking Herschel Island in summer as an ex- ample, we find large numbers of families camped on the beach waiting for the trading ships, and in the meantime living largely on fish from their nets. The consumption of food in almost continuous commun- istic feasting appears on the face of things to be prodigious. Eating is irregular as to hours, but every housewife is supposed to boil a kcttleful of fish, a mess of seal-meat, or a few old-squaws or eider-ducks every few hours, and generally also a pot of tea. When the meal is ready, some member of the family sings out "Niakokseragut!" and evcry- the Eskimos I saw but one Eskimo drink seal-oil, and that was only a small amount after several months on a very short ration of fat. The Eskimo likes to dip a piece of dry lean meat or fish into seal-oil or whale-oil, and pour a little oil over roots or berries. Sometimes he cats a jiiece of blubber. White men as a rule take their portion of fatly food in other ways. The Eskimo uses little fat in cookery, while the white man fries much of his meat, flapjacks, and eggs, consumes much bacon and butter, uses fat for shortening cakes and pastry, and any housewife knows what an amount of lard- oil of ihe hog is used in cooking a panful of luscious doughnuts. I he Eskimo with his seal-oil on dry- fish or berries, and the civili/id man with a taste for butter on bread or rich oily cream of the cow on his strawberries, are both following out the same fundamental principles of human Please note that these images are extracted from scanned page images th
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