Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . CHUKCHE COUNTEY HAEES. Sometimes hunting was done several miles out on the ice,and then perhaps a large seal would have to be dragged homethrough snow two or three feet deep. Ducks and rabbitswere frequently captured. Deer were scarce and seen onlya long distance inland. When hunting had to be suspendedduring a long spell of bad weather, there would be almost afamine in the villages. Small quantities of the ships provi-sion were dealt o
Our lost explorers : the narrative of the Jeannette Arctic Expedition as related by the survivors, and in the records and last journals of Lieutenant De Long . CHUKCHE COUNTEY HAEES. Sometimes hunting was done several miles out on the ice,and then perhaps a large seal would have to be dragged homethrough snow two or three feet deep. Ducks and rabbitswere frequently captured. Deer were scarce and seen onlya long distance inland. When hunting had to be suspendedduring a long spell of bad weather, there would be almost afamine in the villages. Small quantities of the ships provi-sion were dealt out once a month. The Chukches are a hardy race, but exceedingly indolentwhen want of food does not force them to exertion. There 416 THE JENNEATTE ARCTIC EXPEDITION. were but few natives in the settlement who did not own arifle, obtained from whalers. The men, during their hunt-. CHUKCHE WOMAN ANGLING. ing excursions, pass whole days in a cold of 30 to 40 degreesbelow zero, out upon the ice, without protection and withoutcarrying with them food or fuel. Women nearly naked CHUKCHE FISHERWOMEN. 417 often, during severe cold, leave for awhile the innei^ tentwhere the train-oil lamp maintains a heat that is at timesoppressive. Both men and women wear snow-shoes duringthe winter, and will not willingly undertake any long walksin loose snow without them. The children nearly alwaysmake a pleasing impression, by their healthy appearance andtheir friendly and becoming behavior. In early winter, before the ice is too thick, the women fishalong the shore. Each fisherwoman is accompanied by aman, who cuts a hole in the ice with an iron-shod spear, andskims out the loose ice with an ice-sieve. Stooping down atthe hole, she endeavors to attract the fish by means of apeculiarly wonderful clattering cry, and when a fish is seenin the water, a line with a baited hook of bone,
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