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few (lays after my arrival, and while a woman and her child were 

 looking in at the window I brought out one of these dolls, for the 

 first time, and, unseen, dressed it in a towel, and slowly brought it 

 towards the window. At first sight of it the woman's eyes opened 

 very widely as she stood wondering, but when I suddenly made it 

 squeak she did not wonder any more, but turned and fled. 



Besides the means commonly employed in the chase by the Eskimo 

 in all parts of the Arctic Regions thei-e are doubtless others only 

 known or practised by those living in certain localities. At Cape 

 Prince of Wales the seals wei^e seldom captured at their holes in the 

 ice, but invariably along wide cracks, or in the water beyond the ice 

 where one man might be often seen scraping with his spear and 

 whistling in a low note while his companion lay at the edge of tlie 

 ice, and if there were any seals within hearing distance they were 

 always attracted to the spot, when rising quickly tlie Eskimo would 

 throw his spear with line attached and if quick enough would seldom 

 miss. The seal, however, is very active and often escapes by diving 

 before the harpoon i-eaches it. 



The gun, with which many are supplied, has almost taken the 

 place of the bow and arrow, nevertheless they are still used by a few 

 in deer hunting, and while one takes up a position behind some stones 

 in one of the narrow passes of the hills others drive the deer towards 

 him. By this means a very close shot is obtained and I was informed 

 that often half the length of the arrow is buried in the deer's side. 



The fish spear used in Greenland is also found here though seldom 

 used, the most common implement employed being a long handle 

 with an ordinary knife firmly tied near one end making a fork, one 

 prong of which is the end of the i-od, the other the blade of the 

 knife its sharpened edge turned inward. With this ugly weapon the 

 salmon are speared or, more properly speaking, are slashed and are 

 often found nearly cut in halves. 



The net is also used here in catching fish in the smaller streams, 

 though the most common mode of trapping is by building walls of 

 stones shaped like a bag about six inches above the surface, and then 

 with sticks and stones splashing the water higher up the stream and 

 driving the fish into the trap. 



