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unpacked, but was lying on the beach just as it had been 

 removed from the boats. Each camp had at least one 

 large umiak or skin traveling boat, and there were a few 

 kayaks. The Eskimo were well provided with food; 

 they had fresh seal and walrus meat, dried seal meat, fresh 

 salmon and smelts, and large quantities of dried flat-fish. 

 They had also buckets filled with tiny, silvery fish, some- 

 what like a smelt in general appearance, but very small. 

 These they were eating and also feeding to the dogs. 



These Port Clarence Eskimo were a stout, sturdy 

 people, and all of them seemed strong and healthy. 

 Among them were several quite tall women, one at least 

 of whom overtopped most of the men and boys about her. 



All, men, women, and chil- 

 dren, seemed healthy, and 

 all seemed quite clean. 



Each family had at least 

 a half dozen dogs, which 

 were usually tethered on the 

 beach by twos and threes. 

 While some of them were 

 white and others black, most 

 were gray and very wolf-like 

 in appearance. I have never 

 seen dogs that looked so 

 much like wolves. They 

 all seemed very good-na- 

 tured, and not at all dis- 

 posed to regard strangers 

 with suspicion. Scarcely any 

 of them barked at the members of the party who were 

 strolling around among them. 



The hunting implements that these people carry were 

 many of them of primitive type — harpoons, seal spears, 

 and fish spears, tipped with ivory or bone. I saw one 



ESKIMO WOMAN, MAN, AND CHILD, 

 PORT CLARENCE. 



