SEAL-SKIN TROUSERS AND PETTICOATS. 



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The harbor-seal is, perhaps, the least serviceable of seals, since lie is 

 not common very far north of Labrador; but his flesh is considered the 

 best, and on the Pacific coast the Indians take whole herds at once, by 

 stealing upon them when they are basking on the beach or in shallow 



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PANIC-STRICKEN BY A SWORD-FISH. 



bays, and drawing a seine around them. The hides of the old ones are 

 good only for tents, but those of the young are highly prized ; and no 

 present is more acceptable to a Greenland damsel than the prettily mot- 

 tled skin of a Jcassigiak (as she would call it), out of which she will make 

 the wide, warm trousers that serve her in the place of petticoat. 



Another seal, of which the Greenlanders do not get many — the hooded 



