WHERE AND HOW THEY LIVE. jg 



about his little home, you may not then 

 think so. It is so cold in the Arctic 

 country in the winter that no timber can 

 grow at all, just as it never grows on the 

 cold summits of the very high snow-cov- 

 ered mountains. Sometimes the Eskimo, 

 by trading with the whale-ships, get wood 

 enough to make the sledges or the spear- 

 handles with which they kill seal and 

 walrus, but not enough to build houses. 

 Sometimes they pick up a little on the 

 bleak sea-beach, where the ocean currents 

 have brought it for many hundreds of 

 miles from warmer climates ; but they 

 have no tools, and they do not know how 

 to cut the wood into boards if they had 

 the tools. Never having seen any timber 

 growing as in our woods and forests, they 

 have to make guesses where it comes 

 from. One tribe I met thought the logs 



