 | 1818 - Počet stránok 492
...employ various modes of preserving it for future use. The most common is to cut it into thin slips, and dry it over a line in the interior of their huts....luxury of their meals, their bread being nothing more to them than the dried muscular parts of seals or of birds. fortunate hunter, is sure to obtain general... | |
 | William Joseph Snelling - 1831 - Počet stránok 552
...The most common is to cut it into thin slips, and so dry it over a line in the interior of their hut. The blubber is most carefully preserved, as being...representation of life would form little inducement to an European to exchange his comforts for it. The picture is to refined appetites truly disgusting ;... | |
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... to the men, by way of cordial after their fatigue. Then, having provided the men with dry clothes, they proceed to flay and cut up the spoil. Seal's flesh forms their chief support; and they employ various modes of preserving it for future use. The... 