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JOHN BURROUGHS 



Some of the younger women were fairly good looking and 

 their fur hoods and fur cloaks became them well. I no- 

 ticed that the babies cried very much, as at home. Most 

 of the women were dressed in hair seal or reindeer skins, 

 but some wore an outer garment of colored cotton cloth, 

 hanging loosely to the knees. It was interesting to see 



them tuck their babies under 

 this garment from the rear. 

 The mother would bend for- 

 ward very low, thrust the 

 child under the garment at 

 her hips and by a dexterous 

 wriggling movement of her 

 body propel it forward till 

 its head protruded in its 

 place above her shoulder. 

 One marked its course along 

 her back as he does a big 

 morsel down a chicken's 

 gullet. 



Some of the captains of 

 the whalers came aboard our 

 ship to advise us about tak- 

 ing water. They were large, powerful, resolute looking 

 men, quite equal, one would say, to the task before them. 

 Water was to be 

 procured from a 

 stream that ran 

 in from the tun- 

 dra on the south- 

 ern shore of the 

 bay about a doz- 

 en miles distant. 

 Leaving part of our company to visit the whalers and the 

 Eskimo, the ship steamed away with the rest of us for 





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ESKIMO MAN, WOMAN, AND CHILD, 

 PORT CLARENCE, ALASKA. 



PORT CLARENCE TUNDRA. 



