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{ARVELOUS SKILL OF THE ESKIMOS. 
|} Tue natives of the frigid zone know how 
\) set effective traps for deer, wolves, and other 
inimals, without the aid of wood or white men’s 
inplements. A deer-trap, for instance, is made 
iy digging a hole in the deep snow and cover- 
lag it with snowblocks held in position by rest- 
ng upon each other. For bait, little lines of 
lalted water are led to the center of the cover- 

ng of the pit, and following up one of these 
he unsuspecting animal falls in and becomes 
|n easy prey to the hunter. 
A wolf-trap is made by coiling into as small 
space as possible slender strips of whalebone 
tbout a foot in length, and tying them with 
‘hread made from sinew. Each coil is then im- 
sedded in a small chunk of meat and thrown 
ipon the snow, where it is subsequently found 
by the wolf and bolted without chewing. Ina 
little while the frozen meat thaws, the sinew is 
vet and slips the loosely made knots, the whale- 
yone straightens and pierces the stomach and 
ntestines, and the animal dies in torture. 
In winter the northern native knows how to 
ind the blow-hole in the ice fields, where a 
seal comes up to get a fresh supply of air for 
iis lungs. This blow-hole is very different in 
-eality from that which is usually pictured in 
he illustrated stories of Arctic travel. Gen- 
rally they are represented as irregular open- 
ings in the ice from two to six feet in dia- 
meter. The fact is, one unfamil.ar with the 
habits and haunts of these marine mammals 
would pass directly over a blow-hole in winter 
or spring and not see it, as it is not usually 
lmore than from half an inch to an inch in dia- 
meter at the surface of the ice. The native seal- 
lnunters are greatly assisted in these searches by 
their dogs, whose keen noses scent the odor 
lof seal meat, and guide their masters to places 
lon the right or left of the line of search, that 
would otherwise have escaped the notice of 
even these keen-eyed hunters. When found, 
the location is marked for future reference, and 
at some subsequent time, when meat is scarce 
in the snow-hut that shelters the hunter’s house- 
hold, he repairs, with snow knife and spear, to 
one of the places previously marked, and build- 
ing a shelter or break-wind of snow-blocks, sits 
down to await the return of the seal. Some- 
times these vigils are prolonged not for hours 
only, but for days, at a sitting. 
In the spring, when the seal comes out upon 
the ice.to bask and doze in the warm sunlight, 
the hunter approaches him by lying down and 
advancing cautiously, at the same time imi- 
tating the motions of a seal, keeping his feet 
land legs, which he crosses at the ankle, close 
‘together, so that they much resemble the hind- 
quarters of a seal. Indeed, when at a distance, 
I have frequently found it difficult to tell which 
was the seal and which the man. It is the early 
training of the northern savages that has taught 
|them to do all this skilfully—Cosmopolitan. 
\ FISHERMAN’S LUCK. 
\ FISHERMAN in the little bay of Livadostowo 
(a village in the innermost northeast corner 
of the gulf, close to where the ancient Creusis 
| is supposed to have stood) has brought to light 
lthe fragments of a bronze figure a little over 
half life-size. From an inscription on the basis 
| it appears that the statue represented Poseidon. 
The bearded head is the portion best preserved, 
and it is reported to be closely analogous to 
the bearded bronze head found in_ the 
Acropolis; if this be correct it belongs to the 
sixth century, B. C. Unfortunately, the rest of 
the statue—i. e., the nude standing body of the 
god—is so fragmentary and so much corroded 
that it is doubtful if even the most careful 
cleaning and piecing can make much of it. It 
is not reported whether the fisherman was 
actually fishing, or found the statue washed up 
on the shore—London Builder. 

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