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bird-skins and trimmed with fox fur. The breeches, 
called nannuk, are of bear-skin and come down to the 
knees, and above are just in contact with the kapetah, 
when the wearer is standing upright. On the feet bird- 
skin socks are worn with a padding of grass, over which 
come bear-skin boots. By means of their sledges these 
hunters can move swiftly to the bear-hunting grounds, 
and no hunters in the world display more indomitable 
courage and presence of mind, or more skill and judgment 
in the exercise of their craft. Their number, when first 
discovered, was about 300. From an ethnological point 
of view they are the most interesting of all savage tribes, 
by reason of their wonderful exodus and their isolation. 
We have now passed in review all the dwellers on the 
Arctic Threshold, from Lapland round the northern shores 
of Siberia and America to Greenland, considering them 
with reference to their environment, and we have traced 
the wanderings of the Onkilon until we find the last 
remnant of the exodus on the northern shore of Baffin's 
Bay. Such a brief survey is a necessary introduction 
to the history of Arctic enterprise. 
