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OUR ARCTIC PROVINCE. 



so that by six or seven o'clock, after breakfast, the able-bodied male 

 population turn out from the village and go down to engage in the 

 work of killing them. These men are dressed in their ordinary labor- 

 ing-garb of thick flannel shirts, stout cassimere or canvas pants, 

 over which the " tarbossar " boots are drawn. If it rains they wear 



Peter Peeshenkov : Pribylov Sealer. 

 [Attired in the costume of the killing gang, when at work in wet weather.} 



their "kamlaykas," made of the intestines and throats of the sea- 

 lion and fur-seal. Thus dressed, they are each armed with a club, 

 a stout oaken or hickory bludgeon, which has been made particu- 

 larly for the purpose at New London, Conn., and imported here 

 for this especial service. Those sealing-clubs are about five or 

 six feet in length, three inches in diameter at their heads, and 

 the thickness of a man's forearm where they are grasped by the 



