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on some of the nice sloping side-hills, 

 while nearly all of those of little Boreas 

 are behind well-trained dogs, which carry 

 him along as fast as a pair of good 

 horses. They go "coasting" quite often, 

 however, if they can find a good hill for 

 the purpose, which they can not always 

 find, because most of the tops and ridges 

 of the hills in their country are kept 

 clear of the snow by the terrible gales of 

 wind that they have so often. 



One sport that amuses the Eskimo 

 boys very much would probably be called 

 in our language " reindeer hunting." 

 Having found a long and gentle slope on 

 a side-hill, they place along the bottom 

 of the hill a number of reindeer antlers, 

 or, as we sometimes incorrectly call 

 them, deer-horns (for you boys must not 

 forget that the antlers of a deer are not 



