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cooked in the finest way. I preferred bear steaks to almost any kind 

 of salt meat. I see by the papers that there was an Indian feast here 

 in St. Louis last night where 150 people partook of boiled dog as the 

 chief and almost only thing on the menu. I have eaten dog and I feel 

 somewhat slighted that I was not invited to the feast. 



Mr. Meehan : I can sympathize with Professor Dyche as to food in 

 Greenland. I ate some of the narwhal skin in McCormick Bay and 

 found it did not have much of a taste. It is a little difficult to describe. 

 Upon starting it was something like biting India rubber, but your teeth 

 came to with a snap. It had a rather bluish tinge, and was supposed 

 to have a nutty taste, but I did not distinguish it. I attempted on one 

 occasion to eat seal meat that was ripe, killed the winter before, but the 

 odor was much stronger than the flavor of the meat. Being in an 

 experimental frame of mind I tried to eat it. 



One of the things I did not attempt to touch, however, was the little 

 creature quite abundant in the hair of the Eskimo, of which they seem 

 to be particularly fond. Quite frequently I have seen them take the 

 little creature as a sort of dessert to their meals. 



Professor Dyche : 1 forgot that. 



Mr. Meehan: I remember on one occasion when an Eskimo was re- 

 monstrated with for using that dessert he turned around and said he 

 could not see that it was any worse than what the white people did 

 who ate shrimps caught in the water in great abundance and which 

 are known to the Newfoundland sailors as sea lice. 



Dr. Bean: I heard an Eskimo explain the habit. When I remon- 

 strated with him for eating the louse, he replied, "He eat me, why me 

 no eat him!" — Reciprocity. (Laughter.) 



