Sketches From Oldest America 



"pooya" are its age, the ingredients and style of 

 its construction, and its one great product (accord- 

 ing to the Inupash)— the first man. 



During those very early days, the woman ap- 

 pears not to have washed her dishes, although she 

 may have spent a great deal of time in the water. 

 The recipe says: Scrape the old dried dinner from 

 the " allutok" used at a previous feast of seal meat. 

 To the scrapings add a small pinch of the tender pin 

 feathers of a bird. The two ingredients are to be 

 mixed, then masticated until metamorphosed into 

 chewing-gum. 



There were no clocks or watches in those early 

 days, so the Polar man's first mother had lots of 

 time. After a few centuries had passed, some 

 genius invented a new form of chewing-gum called 

 "anoon." It appears to have been the third tri- 

 umph in the culinary line. Seal oil is boiled; the 

 upper portion being poured off, the thick sediment 

 remaining is again boiled until it becomes black and 

 nearly burnt, when it is ready for chewing. The 

 use of this is said to shorten time considerably, but 

 the mass does not look inviting. 



"Keveh," made by warming deer tallow, then 

 beating it into a light mass with salmon berries, was 



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