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things, and sounds quite ordinary to Eskimo 

 ears. 



There is plenty of incident in a doctor s 

 daily round in Labrador, though it be only 

 in the mild form of peeps at typical Eskimo 

 life, or small adventures such as falls down 

 great snow pits or even a plunge through the 

 roof of a buried hut or a sudden and painful 

 descent into a sort of cave full of vicious sled 

 dogs which was the householder s buried snow 

 porch. 



Another very interesting thing was the 

 feeding of the sick. They were Eskimos, and 

 must have Eskimo foods ; so in order to let 

 them have the foods they liked, we allowed 

 their friends to bring things for them. 



I might make a long list of the foods the 

 people brought seal meat raw, dried, boiled, 

 fried, and even made into a stew with flour 

 and giving forth a most appetising smell ; the 

 flesh of reindeer, foxes, bears, hares, sea birds 

 of all sorts ; eggs of gulls, sea pigeons and 

 ptarmigan, the gulls eggs especially being 

 sometimes in a half-hatched state, with great, 

 awful-looking eyes inside them ; trout and 

 cod and salmon ; the boiled skin of the white 

 whale and the walrus ; raw reindeer lips and 

 ears these are only some of the peculiarly 

 Eskimo dishes that passed before our eyes ; 



