AN ESKIMO'S SUMMER CAMP. 



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About the first of April the Eskimo hunter leaves his winter encamp- 

 ment, taking his family and a few bits of furniture on his dog-sledge, and 

 goes to some locality where he expects to find seals abound. Arrived 

 there he cuts out square blocks of hard snow, piles them up into a round 

 hut with a domed roof, clearing away the snow from the inside down to 

 the hard ground or ice-surface. Over this hut he throws water, which, 

 in freezing, cements all the blocks together; and then he has a good tight 

 house, as warm as though made of stone. This done, he and his family 



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TIIE HOODED SEAL — CYSTOPHOKA CHISTATA. 



are as comfortable as if they were at their winter home; and if his hunt- 

 ing is successful, he is contented and happy. 



The old-fashioned native manner of hunting — some of the Eskimos 

 now have guns, and this spoils the interest — called for much skill and 



