CHAPTER VI 

 TALES TOLD BY THE ESKIMO 



IF we could creep along the narrow underground 

 passage leading to the snow hut, we might 



INTERIOR OF AN ESKIMO SNOW HUT. 



have the good fortune to find the Eskimo family 

 crowded together round the small, evil-smelling 

 oil lamp, which from time to time is replenished 

 by a new supply^of fat from the seal or whale. 



