Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . weapons enabled them to capturebarely enough game to furnish skins for their clothing, without any to spare forcovering their houses. The kangmah is merely a simplified igloo, rendered possible by the increasedprosperity of the tri
Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . weapons enabled them to capturebarely enough game to furnish skins for their clothing, without any to spare forcovering their houses. The kangmah is merely a simplified igloo, rendered possible by the increasedprosperity of the tribe. It is much easier to build only the narrower portion ofthe roof of stones, and cover the remainder with sealskins laid across sticks andcovered in with turf. And it is a still further economy of labour, if a man (as isoften the case now) has two tupiks, or sealskin tents, to merely build the walls ofhis igloo, and then roof it over entirely with his second-best tupik, folded andlaid upon poles, then covered with turf and snow. Appendix II 50: auks and looms, are obtained with nets and stored forwinter use. Of these various animals, the seal is perhaps thestaple, with the walrus next. The meat of these twoanimals is about equally prized, and the blubber Isequally valuable for cooking purposes and for heatingthe houses. Next come the narwhal and the white. MAKING A HARPOON LINE. whale, then the bear, while the deer, fox, and hareform a very small item in the Eskimo menu, and maybe considered rather as delicacies than as staples. As for occupation, these people may be said to havebut one, namely, hunting, and the construction andkeeping in repair of the weapons and accessories re-quired by it. From the return of the sun till its de-parture, the various animals are hunted in turn in 504 Northward over the Great Ice accordance with the season and locality ; and duringthe winter the surplus supply of meat obtained duringthe hunting season is consumed in carrying the tribethrouq-h
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