Identifier: ridpathsuniversa08ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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imate. The house of the Esquimau is scarcelyprovided with any means of ventilationor for the admission of light. , ° Interior arrange- Evervthing depends upon mentofEsqui- .,., . mau dwellings. the arrangement withm.At one side of the den is set a broadbench. Here the occupants of the hutsit, eat, and sleep by turns. The man-ner of life would be intolerable to human 446 GREAT RACES OF MANKIND. beings accustomed to a plentiful supplyof fresh air. The Esquimaux, however,are able to dwell in their unventilatedabodes and to live on animal food forseveral months together—this, with onlyoccasional sallies into the open air. Such is the climate to which they are ex-posed that great quantities of heavy food of this race to consume ten pounds of ani-mal food in a single day! Dr. Kane hasrecorded his astonishment at the coarsegluttony by which the fires of life arekept a burning. Cooking, in so far as it is practicedamong them, is of the filthiest, lowestorder. Fire is not usually applied to
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INTERIOR OF ESQUIMAU HUT.—Drawn by Stahl, after Dr. Kane. must be taken in order to support life, andit is the common manner Necessity for heavy food; of the Esquimaux to gorge themselves to utter reple-tion. Especially do the chief men keepthemselves, by the hands of servants,actually filled with fatty substances de-rived from fishes and hot-blooded ani-mals. Adventurers from the Southamong the Esquimaux have been as-tounded at the extent of their eating.It is not an uncommon thine for a man the pots which contain the food. Stonesare heated and thrown into Filthy cookery; the water where the flesh stuffing with r. 1 , i •-! j blubber. or fish is to be boiled.Otherwise the meats are broiled in thefire. No pains are taken whatever as tocleanliness. Soot, ashes, and dirt aremixed writh everything that has passedthrough the semblance of cooking. Norcan the traveler, until he has long beenschooled to the disgusting ceremonial ofthe hut, induce himself to eat at all. NORTHERN ABORIGINE

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