ESKIMOS AT HOME AND AT WORK 53 



of reindeer, seal, eider duck, an Eskimo can brave 

 the fiercest winds or the most piercing cold. 



Two suits of clothing are used, the inside suit 

 being made so that the fur is turned inwards 

 next the skin. The outer garments are made 

 in the opposite manner, viz., with the fur turned 

 outwards. It is necessary for warmth to have these 

 two fur suits ; and not only so, no fastenings or 

 openings are made in either the front or back, other 

 wise the penetrating cold would effect an entrance. 

 The coat is slipped over the head in a sack-like 

 fashion. Fur socks protect the feet, and over these 

 are worn long boots made of sealskin. 



The only practical difference between the dress 

 of the women and that of the men consists in a kind 

 of tail, a flap-like appendage to the coats of the former, 

 and in the addition of a large hood, which is fitted to 

 the collar, in which their babies are carried. This is 

 the quaintest of infant perambulators. The little 

 round, flat face, and the beady dark eyes of the baby 

 peep upon the wintry wilds outside from the snug 

 depths of the great fur hood of the mother. The 

 latter shuffles along with a peculiar motion of the 

 shoulders, humming all the time one of those lul 

 labies which only mothers know how to sing and 

 babies to understand. If these efforts are not suc 

 cessful in pacifying the little one, a piece of raw 

 seal's meat or blubber takes the place of the 

 teething ring or the " lollipop" with us. The gory 



