Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 389
e. 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, and the handle in thecenter made of a curved… … AN ESKIMO KNIFE AND SNOW-SHOVEL. reindeers horn. A sno\v-shovel is always carriedby the Eskimo on their travels. The knives withwhich they cut the blocks of snow are like greatlong-bladed butcher-knives, with handles of woodlong enough to be grasped easily and firmly withboth hands. Sometimes they…
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