Clinch Valley news. [volume] (Jeffersonville, Va.) 18??-2019, 1892-03-11
ESKIMO DIET.
Is cniruiatsd to Produce Dyspepsia sn
Any Other human Iicing.


Any Other human BclnE.
had read about Eskimo eating
nabits-how once upon time. for
Instance, an Arctic explorer offered
bRhe Eskimo girls some sweetmeats
which were rejected, while tallow
candles were eagerly accepted and
eaten. Now ] wish to see an Eskimo
eat. With many smiles, Peter en-
tered the cabin and sat down at tho
table. should have apoplogized to
him on account of the scantiness of
our fare, for we had no candles and
There wasn't bit Of tallow on deck
even, let alone in the cabin. but 1
noticed that the butter plate was
heaping full, the sight of which made
me wish for some Of my friends so
that VIC could make pool on the
humber Of bites he would take in
swallowing the roll. Then Peter sat
dPwn and without ceremony helped
himself to q lot of baked beans, a
piece of dry bread and large piece
Of very lean, salt beef all of which he
bit into and swallowed as q hungry
Iongshoreman might have done.
Then he took more beans and moro
bread and more lean beef, and with
them several cups of coffee with a
great deal of sugar to each cup. He
was long time getting to 1t, 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 eyes fell on a plate
OF cake. Taking small piece he put
small lump of butter on it and
slowly ate the combination with the
coffee. To the reader of geographic
Pal magazine it may seem strange,
$put the fact is, until saw this man
at the table, had really expected to
find the Erkimos of South Greenland
Showing the habitsand tastes of those
living thousand miles further up the
coast. l had not quite expected to
find them living in snow houses, but
4 had misty idea that an Eskimo
was a little black Indian whose chief
delight among the things brought
from civilized country was the tai
low candle. The staple food is seal
meat and blubber. Next to that is
the little fish taken in the ford and
dried for winter use, known to them
rs the augmatfat and to the learned
rs sdtrno uilloSus. A favorite way of
Batting the dried augmatfat is to take
it by the tale, poke it into the oily
blubber for while, and then chew it
down. Awful, isn't it? 1t is almost
as bad as eating sardines. There is a
deal in Il name. Blubber is disgust
ing; oil, if for use on salad is de-
licious and Indispensable. 1 have
eaten seal oil and found it (vcry I'M
expectedly) good. l had supposed it
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 as olive oil in all
American groceries. Augmatfat and
blubber, under French label, would
be esteemed luxury in New York as
Dk Arsuk. For the rest, the Eskimos
trade seal oil and skins to their Gov
ernor for three kinds of hard tack,
for coffee, sugar and tea. They catch
Arctic Goldfish misarkornak in Eskimo
and gadlus naraga in the books and
salmon in the seasons; they shoot no
end of gulls, ducks, ptarmigans, 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 pos.
sum is to the plantation darkey. He
likes to smoke and, under favorlng
circumstances, will swap anything
he's got, including his wife, for rum.
LGoldthwaitc's Geographical laoazina
PossIDLY She man who put dynn'
mite between the leaves of books anG
o.. mem 10 various prominent peopl,
In Paris last week was actuated b,
good and philanthropic motives. May
be he knew whit French books are
and thought little dynamite wouli
soften the shock.
No man knows how desperate wo,
man can look until he has seen her
nndartnka to ride n l,icrnlo