With an equipment consisting of harpoon and float Eskimos hunt the walrus from their kayaks. 

 The capture of a walrus is cause for great congratulation to the successful hunter 



In the coast region between Cape 

 York and the Humboldt Glacier, musk 

 oxen became extinct in 1860, not due 

 to the introduction of firearms, but to 

 the human instinct to kill something. 

 This animal, with the help of dogs, is 

 easily and fearlessly approached, and 

 falls a victim to the killing iron as read- 

 ily as to the modern rifle. 



Since 1898, when Pearv first Avin- 



E-took-a-shoo is inflating a sealskin to be 

 used as a float in hunting walrus. This will be 

 attached to the end of the harpoon line, and its 

 position on the water after the harpoon has been 

 thrown will mark the spot where the body of the 

 walrus has sunk 



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tered in Smith Sound and obtained 

 musk oxen at Bache Peninsula, Elles- 

 mere Land, the Eskimos have journeyed 

 almost annually to these musk oxen 

 grounds. In ]90T they first crossed the 

 heights and descended into Bay Fiord 

 and Eureka Sound, from which region 

 hundreds of musk oxen were taken out 

 last year, furnishing the very best meat 

 and skins. 



x\nother important food of the Es- 

 kimo is the caribou which is valued 

 more for its light, warm skin than for 

 its flesh. Caribou meat is tender and 

 sweet, but lacks stamina-giving prop- 

 erties for dog or man. Each year, in 

 October, six or seven sledges can be 

 seen slowly ascending Brother John's 

 Glacier at the head of Foiilke Fiord. 

 The trail leads to the north, to the 

 I'ocky valleys and glistening lakes lyiug 

 Ijetween the coast and the ice cap of 

 Greenland. The children laugh, and 

 chatter, and talk of hearts, tongues, 

 and liver; the women watch their fox 

 traps dangling from the back of the 

 sledge and visualize themselves riding 

 into southern settlements durinsf the 



