THE ESKIMOS' TEETH, AND OTHER NOTES. 



BY K. (). STEBBINS, D.D.S. 



To VISIT the far north, for the 

 purpose of studying the character 

 of the Eskimos, I joined Dr. Cook's 

 Arctic expedition of 1894. 



Although our vessel was aban- 

 boned at sea, and all our baggage 

 and curios, such as skin and bone 

 trinkets, clothing, made by the 

 natives of furs and raw hide ; eider- 

 down from the duck, and other 

 bird skins, together with imple- 

 ments of the chase, the kayak, 

 oomiak, and sledge-snowshoes, etc., 

 were all lost, the memory of those curious little people is 

 fresh in our minds, and not likely to be obliterated by time. 

 Nor can we forget the grand mountains of rock, void of earth 

 and shrub, the beautiful fiords, dotted here and there with 

 many islands, mere rocky peaks, penetrating from the fear- 

 ful depths below; the eternal ice-cap of that glacial continent, 

 with its mighty rivers of ice, forcing their way down through 

 the rocky canons, depositing great masses of ice in the fiords, 

 with a crash and splash that can be heard for miles. 



The waters of the fiords seem to afford a great quantity of 

 nutritious seaweed and small fish, upon which feed the millions 

 of birds gulls, ducks, and geese. The birds nest so close 

 together along the crags of the rocks that they look like 

 patches of snow. 



