The Cordova daily times., 1920-12-17

stood by others with harpoons ready to spear them. The seals swan from , hole to hole, either to be frightened away by the women and children, or to be killed by the hunters. In this manner sometimes hundreds were killed in single day.
 After such slaughter the villag usually moved, temporarily, to a new hunting ground.
 l The nomadic hunter found that a ! thin piece of skin placed over the breathing hole would flutter at the approach of seal, which device to use his spear.
 Long experience taught him not to approach game from the wind ward
 The Eskimo used very ingenious method of killing walrus, which was also copied from the bear. As herd lay basking on some beach, the bear from the cliff above, would doll down large stone or piece of ice on to the head of one of the animals, for the purpose of crushing it's skull, or stunning it, afterwards reaching i down, if necessary, to administer the quetus with his paw
 From the observation he knew that any unusual noise would attract the walrus to the surface of the sea. armed with flat strips of flexible whalebone, scattered with their boats on the sea, padding rapidly towards an approaching herd. In the bow of each boat stood hunter. AS soon as the correct distance had been reached the man dropped the paddle and seizing the whalebone beat the water, producing a loud, cracking | sound. This soon aroused the curi- [ osity of the animals, bringing them to within striking distance. On this hunt, attached to the harpoons were seal floats, which prevented the wal rus sinking.
 Even in the selection of food Eski- mo initiated the bear, which uses fat in winter and lean meats in summer.
 In springtime the hunter followed the deer herds towards the north con- stantly keeping them within his reach. He followed them south in au- tumn, passing rivers, lakes and val | leys. Knowing that deer slipped very easily on the smooth ice. he always tried to drive them through some mar row strait which froze early, and in this way many were easily caught and killed.
 Sometime two men walked directly from the deer knowing that through curiosity they would follow them. | Approaching some large hummock one of the men would hide while the other continued to lead the deer within easy range of his companion,
 The trained dogs of the Eskimo an l SpIpu lIlt eisii SAiN. charged on them, giving the hunters chance to approach, unobserved, and in this manner slaughter them by the hundreds.
 Long experience taught him that birds were more easily caught during the mating season.
 Their method of hunting water fowl was very ingenious. Half a dozen boats scattered within a short distance, frightening the birds and compelling them to dive, without giving them sufficient air, which eventually caused drowning.
 A species of goose, called "kau- go." was easily caught. The native built wall of stones-or any other suitable material-with single en- trance, and locating a flock of geese simply drove them into the enclosure, and sometimes even lead them into it.
 In springtime lynx are so badly snOW-bllnd and exhausted Dy traVel- ing in soft snow, that they are often killed without implements or lasso. Nature. for it's teaching, exacted from the primitive man heavy fee, subjecting him to unbearable hard ships. Merciless storms often kept him prisoner for weeks schooling him in the necessity of establishing caches with a reserve supply of food for such occasions.
 In fact only a few "Stone Age Es- kimos" were graduated from this uni versity. the majority of them hav- 1 ing succumbed long before their al loted years.
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