XI.] 
LIFE IN A REINDEER CHUKCH TENT, 
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“ Kegarding life in the tent I have still the following notes: 
The most troublesome work is given to the older women. They 
rise early to light and attend to the lamps, yoke the dogs, and 
go fishing. The young women, on the other hand, sleep far 
into the day. The housewives return at noon; their work is 
then finished, if we do not consider as work the constant motion 
of the tongue in talk and gossip. The younger people have it 
assigned to them to sew clothes, arrange the fishing-lines and 
nets, prepare skins, &c. Sewing-thread is made from the back 
THE NORTH END OF IDLIDLJA ISLAND. 
(After a drawing by O. Nordquist.) 
sinews of the reindeer, which they procure by barter from the 
reindeer-Chukches, giving for them fish and seal-hlubber. 
“ One cannot, without having seen it, form any idea of the 
large quantity of food they can consume. One evening I saw 
eight persons, including one child, eat about 80 lbs. of food. 
The hill of fare was: 1, raw fish; 2, soup; 3, boiled fish; 
'4, seal-hlubber; 5, seal-flesh. The raw fish commonly consists 
of frozen cod. The soup is made partly of vegetables, partly of 
