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possible. Alternately with the raw flesh are eaten pieces of 
blubber and marrow, and bits of the intestines which have been 
freed from their contents merely by pressing between the fingers. 
Fish is eaten not only in a raw state, but also frozen so hard 
that it can be broken in pieces. When opportunity offers the 
Chukches do not, however, neglect to boil their food, or to roast 
pieces of flesh over the train-oil lamp—the word roast ought 
however in this case to be exchanged for soot. At a visit which 
Lieutenant Hovgaard made at Najtskaj, the natives in the tent 
STONE HAMMERS AND ANVIL FOR CRUSHING BONES. 
(One-sixth of the natural size.) 
where he was a guest ate for supper first seal-flesh soup, then 
boiled fish, and lastly, boiled seal-flesh. They thus observed 
completely the order of eating approved in Europe. The 
Chukches are unacquainted with other forks than their fingers, 
and even the use of the spoon is not common. Many carry 
about with them a spoon of copper, tinned iron, or bone (fig. 8, 
p. 117). The soup is often drunk directly out of the cooking 
vessel, or sucked up through hollow bones (see the figure on 
p. 104). These are used as drinking cups, and like the spoons 
