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St. Nicholas [serial] (1873)

Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 388

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it has beensaid, from six inches to a foot in thickness; butafter the house is thus made strong, — for a heavyman can climb or walk right over it withouttumbling it in,— the native architects throw a deepbank of loose snow over it all, burying it in acovering of snow from a foot to three feet thick… … AN IGLOO AS SEEN FKOM THE OUTSIDE, part of the time. Other travelers among the Es-kimo have given equally wonderful accounts of theirpowers of fasting. The Eskimo have many timesof want and deprivation, and then their poor dogsmust suffer very much. But when they are fed gether with reindeer sinew,…

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