Elk City mining news. (Elk City, Idaho) 1903-1913, 1910-08-18
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~F~BY JULES VERNE

brighter"
Fine" said Johnson; let US set to
work at once"
All went to work and soon erected
ten-foot ice column. The lantern
was put on top. The conducting wires
were properly adjusted within 1t. and
as soon as 1t grew dark the experiment
was made. 1t was a complete success.
An intense. brilliant light streamed
from the lantern and illumined the en-
tire plateau and the plains beneath.
Johnson could not help clapping his
hands, half beside himself with delight
A regular course of life commenced
now, and the Saturday after the install
lation a hunting excursion was organ
lied.
AS they tramped along over the ice
the doctor talked about the hibits of
the Eslimos
My good Bell, your voracity would
never equal the Greenlanders," for they
devour from ten to fifteen pounds of
meat a day"
Fifteen pounds!" said Bell. ''What
stomachsi"
Arctic stomachs." replid the doctor,
ARE prodigious; they can expand at
will. and / may add. contract at will;
so that they can endure starvation
quite as well as abundance. When an
Eskimo sits down to dinner he is quite
thin, and by the time he has finished
he is so fat you would hardly recog-
nize him. But then we must remem-
Der that one meal sometimes lasts a
whole day"
This voracity must be peculiar to
the inhabitants OF cold countries" said
Altamont
Il think II U.s." replied the doctor. In
the arctic regions people must eat
enormously; II is not only one OF the
conditions OF strength. but OF exist
ence. The Hudson Bay Co. always
reckoned on this account: Eight
pounds OF meat to each man a day, OF
twelve pounds OF fish. or two pounds
OF pemmican."
Must be strengthening" said Bell.
mot so much as you imagine. An
Indian who guzzles like that can't DO
a whit better days work than an En-
glishman. who has has pound OF beef
and pint Of beer"
Things are best as they are, then, /
suppose"
mo doubt OF II. and yet an Eskimo
meal may well astonish US. In Sir
John Ross narrative. he states his sur
prise at the appetites OF his guides.
He tells as that two Of them-just two.
mind-deyoured a quarter OF a buffalo
IN one morning. They cut the meat In
long strips, and the mode OF eating was
either for the one 10 bite on as much
as his mouth could hold. and then pass
Il on 70 the other, or 10 leave the long
ribbons OF meat dangling from the
mouth, and deyour them gradually
Ike boa constructors. lying al fun
length on the ground"
"Ughl" exclaimed Bell what dis
gusting brutesl"
Every man has bis own fashion or
dining," remarked tho philosophical
American.
Soon valrus was sighted II was
Of huge dimensions, and not more chan
200 yards away The hunters surround
ed the animal orept along cautiously
uN within a few PAGES Of him Then
they fred simultaneously.
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got ~ again and tried 10 make his a.
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