ACROSS PACIFIC OCEAN AND BEHRING SEA 39 



1 small pocket knife ..... $0.17 



2 looking glasses . . . . . . 0.24 



i package of fishing hooks .... 0.20 



i fish line . . . . . > 0.30 



7 yards calico ...... 0.42 



i Ib. of tobacco ...... 0.35 



i box of hard tack . ...... 2.00 



10 Ibs. of sugar ...... 0.45 



$4-13 



In the course of the morning we bought twelve dogs and two 

 pups, the dogs at an average price of $4.14 and the pups at an 

 average price of $1.05. 



The dogs looked fairly good, but it is impossible to say any- 

 thing definite about the value of a dog before it has been tried. 

 A big, strong-looking dog may not be worth anything at all, 

 while a smaller one may well be not only stronger but of greater 

 endurance than the larger one. 



After lunch we went ashore to pay our respects to Mr. and 

 Mrs. Campbell. We spent a pleasant time in their house, and 

 went out for a walk through the village. 



We were surprised at the well-to-do appearance of several of 

 the houses ; three or four of the natives had frame houses, built 

 exactly like a white man's cabin. One old native proudly showed 

 us his house, which had several rooms, and really would have 

 been a good house for a white man, but was quite absurd for a 

 native. For one thing, the price he had paid for the lumber 

 was exorbitant, $800 ; secondly, the house gave him no real 

 pleasure, as it was far too large for him to heat properly, and 

 he and his family lived close to it in an old-fashioned igloo, 

 although he had had the house for two years. But the man 

 was very proud of showing it to other people, and this was the 

 only fun he had out of his $800. Upon the whole it seemed 

 to us that the fixed frame houses were a poor substitute for the 

 igloos. People, when they have once become accustomed to 

 live in them, will stay there in summer as well as in winter, 

 and the Eskimos being very uncleanly, the rooms will soon be 

 filthy and propagate disease. 



