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universal eapture of the fiord seal which provides them chiefly
with clothing and, so to say, supplies the daily food of the
improvident natives of Point Barrow in the extreme West as
well as in northern Greenland, and then the largest species,
the walrus, the bearded and the saddleback seal, from which,
besides quantities of flesh and blubber, they get the highly
important skins used in making boats, tents and hunting lines.
Finally what kind of animals might be considered more closely
attached to the shores and the drifting ice of the arctic sea
than the polar bear? Its occurrence in the New World justly
may be said to correspond almost exactly with that of the
Eskimo. It will be seen that its Eskimo name is everywhere
the same, and we may add that it belongs to the radical words
of the dictionary.
WORDS RELATING TO BOATS AND IMPLEMENTS OF
CHASE. We now pass to consider the products of human
industry by which the capture of the animals enumerated above
is performed, in the first place the means of conveyance and,
secondly, the tools and weapons. In proceeding to discuss
this class of objects, attention must first be called to the
peculiarity in their designation arising from the development they
still have been submitted to during the dispersion of the natives
to their present homes. The changes caused by this
development may appear inconsiderable, but still they are not without
some significance for our investigation, especially as they are
dependant on the different nature of the territories occupied by
the settlers which required an adaptation of the contrivances to
the localities. The same development is already mentioned in
the former volume, but here it will require to be briefly
referred to.
Of the means of conveyance we will, as before said, wholly
omit those used on the frozen sea, the dogs and the sledge.
Certainly the origin of this invention might be suggestive of
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