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the walrus to an Eskimo answers just as the cocoa-palm does to 

 a South Sea islander : it feeds him, it clothes him, it heats and 

 illuminates his " igloo, " and it arms him for the chase, while he 

 builds a summer shelter and rides upon the sea by virtue of its hide. 

 The morse, however, is not of much account to the seal-hunters 

 on the Pribylov Islands. They still find, by stirring up the sand- 



Newack's Brother, with a Sealskin full of Walrus-oil. 

 [ifahlemoot boy fourteen or fifteen, years of age.] 



dunes and digging about them at Northeast Point, all the ivory that 

 they require for their domestic use on the islands, nothing else be- 

 longing to a walrus being of the slightest economic value to them. 

 Some authorities have spoken well of walrus-meat as an article of 

 diet. Either they had that sauce for it born of inordinate hunger, 

 or else the cooks deceived them. Starving explorers in the arctic 

 regions could relish it they would thankfully and gladly eat any- 

 thing that was juicy, and sustained life, with zest and gastronomic 



