CHAPTER III 



THE ESKIMOS AT HOME AND AT WORK. 



"Is not the life more than meat and the 

 body than raiment ? " 



" Work . . . for the meat which abideth 

 unto eternal life ? " 



" Give ye them to eat." 



IF we wish to make friends with people we must 

 know them in the home circle and family life. 

 Now we wish to become the friends of the Eskimos. 

 Then we must enter their homes and live with them. 

 We shall have to go down low on our hands and 

 knees to crawl through the doorway, not much more 

 than a hole, which is the entrance to the Eskimo's 

 iglo or snow-house his winter dwelling-place. 



Frozen snow is easy to work, and therefore very 

 adaptable for building purposes. So this is the 

 Eskimo substitute for bricks and mortar. When 

 a man wishes to build his iglo he describes a rough 

 circle and places his blocks of snow round in order. 

 Then tier upon tier of blocks rises in circle after 

 circle, each layer of smaller diameter than the one 

 below, until at last one block fills up the empty 



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