Interior of snow house of Eskimo. 



HOMES OF THE ESKIMO. WHITE BEAR, 

 AND SEAL. 



NATIVE HOUSE-BREAKERS. 



'No country deserves its name less than does Green- 

 land. If, indeed, it were called Whiteland or Snow- 

 land, as the island whose people first discovered it is 

 called Iceland, it would be much more appropriately 

 named. For more than half the year its hills are 

 croMTied with ice and its valleys filled with snow that 

 even in the short summer time do not melt entirely 

 away. 



The Innuits or Eskimo who live in Greenland raise 

 no crops ; neither trees nor shrubs nor grass are to be 

 found in this desolate region. In the dark winter 

 time these people build their huts of snow. First 

 tracing a circle on the groimd they cut out slabs or 

 bricks of snow to place around it and construct a 

 house the shape of half a globe. 



These houses are not cold, as might be expected ; 

 they shelter their inmates from the fierce arctic storms 



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