BoAS] PRESERVATION OF FOOD 233 
and puts them down on the beach | by her side. When she has 
taken them all off, she takes the roasted salmon-heads | and breaks 
open the jaws. She spreads them out so that they are || spread out 
flat. Then she takes out the edible part inside the head, and only | 
the skin and the bones are left on the ‘‘plucked cheek.” As soon 
as | this is done, she takes a long drying-rack. Sometimes it is | a 
little over a fathom in length. The width of the drying-rack is | two 
spans and four finger-widths. || She puts her ‘‘plucked salmon- 
cheeks”? on it. They are all spread out | when they are on the 
drying-rack, and they are close together | on it. As soon as this is 
all done, she takes what she has done | and puts it just over the 
fire of the house, where it is really | hot. When she finishes, she 
requests her husband to || go and call those who are walking about 
in the village, the men the | children and the women, and even the 
weak old women, | to go and eat the edible part taken out of the 
head when it was lifted | from the roasting-place of the ‘‘plucked 
cheek.”” Immediately the | man calls all the men and all the 
women || and children seen by him to come quickly and to eat the 
roasted | salmon-heads. It is not long before all those whom he | 
invited come down to the beach, and they sit around the heap of 
roasted edible insides of the | salmon-heads. Then they begin to 
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