Glossy seals swim in the water, and once in a while a shaggy white bear goes running over the floating ice in search of seals.
The Eskimos, paddling swiftly through the water in their strange skin boats, hunt these animals for food and clothing.
In winter there is no sunshine at all in Eskimo land. For four long, long months it is dark all the time, just as it is here in the night. The ground is covered deep with snow, and the poor deer must dig through it with their hoofs for grass and moss.
The sea is covered thick with ice, and the birds fly away. The cold is so terrible that the Eskimos would freeze to death were it not for their thick, warm fur coats.
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| hooded | blankets | veranda | bushy |
| coffee | sealskin | September | sugar |
Here in this wonderful land there was found, one September day, a snow-white baby with big blue eyes.
