CHAPTER XXIII 
EASTWARD ALONG THE TUNDRA 
By the next morning, April 7, we were ready to 
start on our way. Our clothes were all dried out 
and in order, our sledge was repaired, our dogs 
were rested and the dogs and ourselves had had a 
chance to eat heartily and at our leisure. Before 
we got away an old woman from one of the other 
arangas came over and asked us to go to her aranga. 
We found that she had a lot of dried deer fat or 
suet, which she considered a great delicacy. She 
offered us some, with sugar to eat with it, and then 
her married daughter gave us some tea. She had 
about eight lumps of sugar left from her winter’s 
stock. She made signs to ask me if I liked sugar. 
I said yes and took some with my tea. The way 
these Siberian Eskimo use their sugar is to take a 
sip or two of tea and then a bite of the sugar; they 
do not put the sugar in the tea and stir it up, but eat 
the sugar and wash it down with tea. The old lady 
also offered me a pair of deerskin mittens which 
were very acceptable. I gave her some needles 
suitable for sewing skins and she was very much 
pleased with them. 
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