Dodge, Mary Mapes, 1830-1905 · [New York : Scribner & Co.] · leaf 427
thiswas because water isvery scarce during thegreater part of theyear; everything isfrozen, and their onlyfire and light is whatthey get from theirikkimer (lamp). And this ikkimer,or lamp, is a shallow-stone dish, on the cen-ter of which is heapedpieces of blubber (fat),and across the frontedge is… … AN ESKIMO MAN STANDING BY A NARWHAL S SKULL. Billybah had to learn, by sad experience,that she could not put her toys down anywherein the streets of Washington and find themagain hours afterward, as she could do in herown country. Her trunk was a regular Noahs ark. A bitof whatever was given her…
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