This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 182? Excerpt: ...off and well oiled, the skin serves also for a covering to their houses and boats: seal-skins, with the skins of bears and deer, compose their beds; and, lastly, when a seal has been very carefully skinned, the Esquimaux women sew the hide up neatly, then fill it with air, like a bladder, and dry it in the sun. After ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 182? Excerpt: ...off and well oiled, the skin serves also for a covering to their houses and boats: seal-skins, with the skins of bears and deer, compose their beds; and, lastly, when a seal has been very carefully skinned, the Esquimaux women sew the hide up neatly, then fill it with air, like a bladder, and dry it in the sun. After this preparation, it answers all the purposes of a cask for containing oil, or any thing else that may be required. Are you convinced now, Harry? HARRY. Perhaps a dead seal may be as useful as a dead camel; but when they are alive, mamma, you know a camel is a much better thing. MRS. B. Each country, my dear Harry, possesses the advantages best suited to its inhabitants: a living camel would be of no service to an Esquimaux; but "Different good, by art or nature given To different nations, makes their blessings even." LUCY. Go on, dear mamma: I went to hear more about the Esquimaux. MRS. B. The English, after spending the day very pleasantly among them, and giving them all the metals they possessed, even to the buttons of their coats, thought it time to return to their ship, and embarked in their boats for that purpose: willing, however, to acknowledge their good-will to their new friends, they rested on their oars at a little distance from the land, and gave the Esquimaux three hearty cheers, after the manner of English sailors. LUCY. I think all that shouting must have frightened the poor natives. Did they cheer in return? MRS. B. The echoes of the English huzzas had scarcely subsided, when three young girls each drew on a pair of gloves, made of white feathers, and stepped down to the edge of the water. They first held out their arms, then waved them to and fro, and suddenly sunk them to the earth. Again they waved their hands, and...
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