874 The Northernmost Inhabitants of the Earth, [September, 
ment ‘is almost unknown among the Itanese. The little ones 
grow up like lap-dogs. Once I undertook to give the half-grown 
boy of one of the hunters a well deserved chastisement, to the 
great disgust and anger of my good-natured friend, his father, 
The only method of punishment that I ever observed was ex 
ceedingly original. The squalling babes, scarcely able to walk 
and totally divested of clothing, were placed on the snow by their 
Fic. 18,—Kalutana, the patriarch. 
mothers until they stopped crying. And this happe pr ei 
times when the temperature was more than twenty degrees 
zero. dren 
It is a very easy matter to satisfy the demands of M ; 
regarding their amusement. Usually the boys play ™! rowing. 
sleds, and after they are a little older practice pees with furs, 
The girls have dolls carved from ivory or bone and cla rite play 
or they have small figures representing animals. ar 
