HOW THEIR CLOTHES ARE MADE. I73 



This knife is used for every thing that is 

 to be done in the way of cutting, from 

 seal and reindeer skin to the thinnest 

 and most fragile strings. At meals, too, 

 some one will put to his mouth a great 

 piece of blubber or fish as big as your 

 fist, seize as much as he can with his 

 teeth, grasp the rest in his hand, and cut 

 off a huge mouthful with this knife. If 

 you were watching him, you would feel 

 certain that he would slice off his nose in 

 this awkward movement, but the Eskimo 

 are so very dextrous that there is not 

 the slightest danger of such an accident. 

 When the reindeer skins have been 

 dressed, and made up into garments, and 

 these have been put on girls and boys, 

 men and women, are dressed so nearly 

 alike that at any considerable distance 

 you can not tell them apart. 



