. Labrador [microform] : a sketch of its peoples, its industries and its natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Ill r !). II.* â. ' ti ): « t it â tl 1' 146 HOW THE KOMATIK IS MADE. pair is recrossed at right angles by another gouge, the purpose of which will soon be seen. A curious fact is that all these holes are bored out with a red hot iron to make them smooth and even. On the side bars, at a regular and previously measured distance apart, are bored holes to the exact number of the crossbars. The holes are bored, one a little above, and the next a little below the pre- ced
. Labrador [microform] : a sketch of its peoples, its industries and its natural history. Natural history; Sciences naturelles. Ill r !). II.* â. ' ti ): « t it â tl 1' 146 HOW THE KOMATIK IS MADE. pair is recrossed at right angles by another gouge, the purpose of which will soon be seen. A curious fact is that all these holes are bored out with a red hot iron to make them smooth and even. On the side bars, at a regular and previously measured distance apart, are bored holes to the exact number of the crossbars. The holes are bored, one a little above, and the next a little below the pre- ceding one, so that when done the whole presents two unequal rows as here shown, .â¢.â¢.'.â¢.â¢.â¢.â¢. hence the liabiUty of thus splitting the soft pine in the sewing process is lessened. The next work is sewing the parts together: for this a coarse salmon net twine is threaded into a needle used for the pur- pose, and each crossbar is sewed into the corresponding hole in the side bar, in and out of the holes on either side of the bar itself, and drawn as tight as possible; the needle then slips under the twine through the groove across the inner pair of holes, and a loop and a stout pull fasten it; thus each bar is sewed on till all are tight,âbut we have not yet finished. The forward end of each side bar must be strengthened by a long, thin iron placed lengthwise along the inner side of each bar (this is the usual and best way of strengthening the ends), and screwed tight to the boards. Then come the shoes. Every komatik has shoes or runners as do our sleds, but unlike them they are of whalebone. Whales are so often found dead on different parts of the coast and towed to some harbor where the flesh is cut up for the dogs, and the bones saved for various pur- poses, that the large rib-bones have become a regular article of commerce among the people; the bones are some eight or ten feet long and nearly or quite a foot wide, with perhaps two inches of thickness. T
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