Identifier: alaskaitshisto00bruc (find matches)
Title: Alaska, its history and resources, gold fields, routes and scenery
Year: 1899 (1890s)
Authors: Bruce, Miner Wait
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Publisher: New York, Putnam
Contributing Library: Robarts - University of Toronto
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Toronto

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would scarcely expect to findamong people who are brought so much in contact withthe elements. Although the colour of their skin bordersstrongly on the olive order, it seems soft and clear. In eating, the Eskimos all sit around in a circle, andthe food is placed on the floor in the centre of the group.No meal, whether it be of dried or frozen fish, seal orwhale meat, is ready to be eaten until a vessel containingseal oil is at hand. This is placed in a position easilyreached by those eating, and before taking a bite of any-thing it is first dipped into the oil, or two or three fingersare thrust into it, and then placed in the mouth andsucked. Such a thing as a spoon is rarely ever used bythem, and it is doubtful if many of them would under-stand its use if they had one. It is when a household of Eskimos are gathered aboutthe floor partaking of their food that their natural dispo-sition to mirth is given full sway, and every meal, whetherin their huts or when camping out, partakes more
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