The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1891-05-07

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1T the table. I should have apologizsd
70 him on aooount Of the soanttnoss e
our faro, for we had no candles and
there wasnt bit Of tallow - deck
even. leA alens II ths sabin, Boo I
noticed that the butter plate was hsap-
Ing full, ths sight of which made me
wish for some Of my friends - thai ~
could make . pool on the number of
bites no would take In swallowing tho
roll. Then Peter - down and waeA-
cut ceremony helped himsolf 10 let -
baked beans, pieos Of DRY broad anA
. Large ptecs Of very leaA salA besf sA
Of which he bit into and swallowed -
. hungry rongshoreman might have
done. Then he took moro beans and
more bread and moro lean beef, and with
them several cups Of coffee with q great
deal Of sugar 10 each cup. He was .
long time getting 10 II, but he finally
began on the butter. He had poured
his last cup Of coffee and was looking
about for something to eat With IT,
when his eye fell on . plate of cake.
Taking . small pioos, he pat . small
lump Of butter on It and slowly ate
the combination with tho coffee. To tho
reader OF geographical msgaainS
1t may seem strange, but the fact Is,
really. expected TO find the Eskimos
Of south Greenland showing the habits
and tastes Of those living Thousand
miles farther up the coast. had not
quite expected to find them living In
snow houses, but I had . misty idea
that an Eskimo was little black In
dian, whose chief delight among the
things brought from q civilized country
was the tallow candle. The staple food
is seal meat and blubber. Next to that
is the little fish taken in tho ford and
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the augmatfat and to the learned as
salmo villosus. A favorite way Of eat
ing the dried augmatfat Is to take 1t BY
the tail, poke it into the oily blubber
for awhile and then ahsw It down.
Awful, isn't it? It is almost as bad as
eating sardines. There Is . deal in q
name. Blubber is disgusting; oil, II tsr
uso on . salad. Is delicious and india
psnsabla. / have satAn ssal oil and
found 1t (very unexpectedly good. I
had supposed 1t would have flavor Of
fish oil. There is no such flavor about
it. 1t is equal to the best extract Of
cotton seed-that quality sold IS olive
oil in all American groceries Aug
matfat and blubber, under French
label, would be deemed . luxury In
New York as In Arsuk. For the rost
tho Eskimos trade seal oil and skins
to their governor for three kinds Of
hardtack, for coffee, sugar and tea.
They catch ARCTIC goldfish (misazkornals
In Eskimo and gadus navaga In the
boolrs) and salmon L, tho seasons; they
shoot no end Of gulls, dualxs, ptsrmigans
and the Arctic hare; they have eggs IN
endless quantity in the season, and very
many foxes are trapped. The fox Is to
the Eskimo what the 'possum ia 10
the plantation darly. He likes to
smoke. and undAr favoriug arouw-
STANCES will swap anything he's go
including his wife, for rum.