486 THE FRIENDLY ARCTIC 



meat, supplying the necessary fat with seal blubber.* A pound of 

 pemmican is enough for a small dog if it contains fifty per cent fat 

 Our pemmican makers had failed us through supplymg a product 

 deficient in fat. 



♦ See "Four Years in the White North," by Donald B. MacMUlan, p. 73. 



