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WONDERS OF ANTARCTIC WORLD 



small loin cloth is used for indoor wear. Night and day the stone lamps filled 

 with train oil burn in the huts. The Eskimo is superstitious of all things. The 

 long arctic night has driven the fear of darkness into his soul, and he will not 

 even sleep without a light burning before his eyes. 



The lamps are so constructed as to burn brightly all night. When they 

 begin to grow dim the Eskimo woman knows that it is morning and time to get 

 up. Cheerless as such a home may seem, it is declared to be quite the opposite. 

 The woman who wakes first in the morning calls out to her neighbor a chal- 



THE NORTH POLE FOUND. 



