Daily Yellowstone journal., 1891-06-19
sLUeBER As a DIET

The Eating Habits Of the EsquimAu1
Are Not Very Different from ou1.
1 had read about EsquimauI eating
habits-how. once upon a time, for In
stance, an arctic explorer offered some
EsQuimaux some swestmeatS which
were rejected while tallow candles
were eagerly accepted and eaten. Now
! was to see an Esquimaux eat With
many smiles Peter entered the cabin
and sat down at the table. | should
have apolOgized to him on account Of
the scantiness of our fare, for we had
no candles and there wasn't a bit of
4allow on deck even. let alone in the
cSb.-- out | noticed that the butter
plate was heaping full the sight Of
which made the wish for some Of my
friends. 50 that we could make a pool
on the number of bites he would take
in swallowing the roll
Then Peter sat down. and without
ceremony helped himself to a lot OF
baked beans. a piece Of dry bread and
a large piece Of very lean salt beef all
of which he Dir uto and swallowed as
a hungry man might have done Then
he took more beans and bread
and more lean beet. and with them
several ups G. COFFEE. With a great deal
Of sugar 70 zach cup He was a long
time getting O o il. bur he finally began
on the butt He had poured his las
cup Of coffee, and was looking about
for something 70 eat with it. when bis
eye fell OF a plate OF cake Taking a
small pie.s be put a small lump Of but
ter on f., and slowly ate the combina-
ton with the coffee. To the reader il
NAV seem strange, but the fact is, TN
Ill saw this man at the table had
really expected 70 find the EsquimauI
Of South Greenland showing the habits
and tastes Of those living a thousand
miles farther up the coast
had not quite expected TO find them
living in snow houses, but ] had q
misty idea that an Esquimau was a lit.
tie black Indian, whose chief delight
among the things brought from a civil.
lied country was the tallow candle.
The staple food is seal e and blub-
Der Next 70 that is the little fist
taken in the ford and dried for winter
use, known TO them as the augmatfat,
and { o the learned as salmo vllosus
A favorite way of eating the dried aug
matfat is 70 take it by the tail, poke i
into the oily blubber for a while, and
then chew il down Awful isn't it,
It is almost as bad as eating sardines
There is a deal in a name Blubber
disgusting; oil, If for use on a salad, /
delicious and indispensable | hav,
eaten seal oil and found it very uneI
pectedlyl good | had supposed i
would have a flavor Of fish oil Their
Is no such flavor about it IL is equa
{ o the best extract of cotton seed-tha
quality sold as olive oil in all American
groceries Augmattat and blubber, VI
der a French label, would be esteeme'
a luxury in New York as in Aruk
For the rest the EsquimauI trad
seal oil aud skins to their governor 10
three kinds Of hard tack, for coffee
sugar and tea They catch arctic cod
fish misarkornak in E~sguiIuauI an
gadus navaga in the books and >almOl
in the seasons They shoot 40 end &
gulls, ducks, ptarmigans and the arcu
bare. They have eggs in endless quar-
tity in the season, and very many fOXe
are trapped. The fox is TO the Esqu
maux what the opOssum is 20 IN
plantation darky. He likes 20 smoke
GoIdthwaite's Geographical Mag'
zine.