FISHING. !6 5 



hole in the ice. Most of the lakes and 

 rivers of the Arctic regions of North 

 America are full of delicious salmon, and 

 the poor Eskimo who have to eat so 

 much fishy seal meat and strong-tasting 

 walrus flesh, appreciate these fine salmon 

 much more than do we, with our great 

 variety of food. Their fish-lines are 

 made of reindeer sinew, and are much 

 stronger than are our lines. The fish- 

 hooks are simply bent pieces of sharp- 

 ened iron or copper, and as they are not 

 barbed at the end, the native fisherman 

 has to pull in very fast when he hooks 

 his fish, or he will lose it, as every boy 

 knows who has fished with a pin-hook. 



If a lake is well stocked with fish, the 

 natives will often camp by it for two or 

 three days and dig a number of holes, so 

 that the women, and every boy and girl 



