. 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. 20't THE
. 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. 20't THE POLAU WOULD. I ,. tlio size of the v.'irions aniinals wliich they liunt; and tlieir elastic hows Mtrougljr bound witli strings of soal-gut, drivo a six-foot arrow with iniLiriii'^r oertaintJy to a distant inarl;. To bring down a larger animal, the shaft is armed witli a sliarp ilint or a pointed bone; if intended to strilie a bird, it is Kinaller, and lilimted. Tlie liarpoons and hniees used in killing whales or seals have long shafts of wood or of the narwhal's tooth, and the barbed point is so constructed that, when the blow takes effect, it is left sticking in the body of flie animal, while the shaft attached to it by a string is disengaged from the socket, and hccoiius a buoy of wood, t^eal-skins, blown up like bladders, are likewise used as biiovs for the whale-spears, l)eing adroitly stripped from the animal so that all the nat- ural a|)ertures are easily made air-tight. With e(pial industry and skill the Es(]uimaux put to use almost ovory part of the land and marine animals 'which they chase. Knives, spear-poinis, ami fish-hooks are made of the horns and bones of the deer. The ribs of the wliale are used in rooiing huts or in the construction of sledges, where drift-tinilicr is scarce. Strong cord is made from stri})S of seal-skin hide, and the sinews uf musk-oxen and deer furnish bow-strings, or cord to make nets or snares. In default of drift-wood, the bones of the wh
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