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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 ; 



