A Study of the Diet and Metabolism of Eskimos. 13 



The European food bought amounted to: 



50000 kg bread and flour 

 10000 kg barley and peas 

 10000 kg sugar 

 12000 kg coffee 



If we take the population (6100) as corresponding to 5000 adults 



we find for one individual: 



pro year per day 

 kg. gr. 



Seal meat 350 960 



Other meat 90 250 



Capelan 250 690 



Other fish 150 410 



Eggs (à 50 gr. ) 2 6 



Berries 20 55 



Bread 10 27 



Beans 2 6 



Sugar 2 6 



Coffee 2,4 6,5 



The quantities of native food must be considered as the available 

 quantities from which something must be deduced to account for 

 bones etc. and for waste in the preparation and during preservation 

 in the case of fish. In the table given below the list of articles is some- 

 what simplified and what we consider as probable figures for the food 

 actually eaten are put in. With regard to the fish especially the assumed 

 loss of about 50 "/o is of course somewhat uncertain. The capelans 

 are eaten with bones, skin and all, and the loss should consequently 

 be small but of these fishes a considerable part is no doubt lost during 

 the time they are kept in a preserved state. Other fishes are eaten 

 fresh and prepared in about the same manner as among civilized people. 

 The loss is therefore probably about the same. 



The compositions given in the table have been calculated partly 

 from our analyses of the seal meat and allowing for the fact that some 

 blubber is eaten along with the meat. This correction is somewhat 

 uncertain and the quantities of fat eaten may have been underesti- 

 mated. The composition of the bread is that usually assumed. With 

 regard to the fish the protein content cannot be far wrong as that 

 is practically the same in all food fishes. The percentage of fat is 

 rather doubtful. We have analysed a sample of capelan taken during 

 the breeding season and found only 1 °/o ether extract, but some of 

 the other food fishes, especially salmon and Greenland halibut, contain 

 a large proportion of fat. 



Though the figures here given may easily be 10 "/o ^^nd possibly 



