. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. 818 THE P
. The polar and tropical worlds [microform] : a description of man and nature in the polar and equatorial regions of the globe : two volumes in one : embracing also an account of the expeditions of all the Arctic explorers from the discovery of Iceland, over one thousand years ago, to Hall's last expedition in the northern world, together with the wonderful discoveries and adventures of Agassiz, Livingstone, Wallace, and other distinguished travelers in the tropical countries. Arctic races; Tropics; Natural history; Races arctiques; Régions tropicales; Sciences naturelles; genealogy. 818 THE POLAR WORLD. ;u^. the bank, branclung out in various directions, and having several entrances all of whicli open under the surface of tlic water. If the animal happens to live upon .1 marshy and uniformly wet soil, it becomes a builder, and lives in curi- ously-constructed huts, from three to four feet in height, plastered with "icat neatness in the inside, and strengthened externally with a kind of basket-work of rushes, carefully interlaced together. The judgment of the animal shows itself in the selection of the site, invariably choosing some ground above tlie reach of inundation, or else raising its hut on an artificial fdi- though obliged to reside near fhif, submerged banks, where the soft soil is full of nourishing roots, it requires a dry home to rest in. In winter the musquash villages—for the huts are sometimes built in siidi numbers together as to deserve that name—are generally covered with tliitk snow, under which this rodent is able to procure water, or to reach the provis- ions laid up in its storehouse. Thus it lives in case and plenty, for the marten is too averse to the water, and the otter too bulky to penetrate into its tunnels. But when the snow melts, and the huts of the musquash appear above the ground, tiio Indian, taking in his hand a large four-barbed sjjcar, steals up to the house, and driving his weapon through the walls, is sur
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