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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 x'ides 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. 

 [JTahlemoot hoy— fourteen orflfieen years of age. '\ 



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

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

 longing to a Avalrus being of the slight€st"ecTTnoniic value to them. 

 Some authorities have spoken Veil of walrus-meat a^ 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 Avas juicy, and sustained life, with zest and gastronomic 



