Show LIFE MI hospitality of owners of a blood Be spattered igloo writer describes home surroundings and interior of arctic residence first view was to a large extent disheartening new york my first view of the interior of uck cluck s arctic residence would have been a disheartening one to a tenderfoot to me after nine hours ot freezing nothing had ever seemed quite BO welcome and cheering as the hollowed out stone in which a liberal quantity of seal oil and boea waa burning writes james oliver curwood in leslie s the moss was used as a wick and so answered the purpose of both lamp and stove three children were crowded together at the end of the igloo staring silently uck gluck s kooner or woman ethod with an infant in her arms grinning broad ly and cheerfully at us the room was about eighteen feet in diameter and was a veritable shambles uck gluck possessed a reputation aa being a great hunter and he had been especially successful of late masses of flesh lay strewn all about the floor there seemed apparently to be no effort or desire to keep it in one or two piles it lay everywhere there was the whole carcass of a walrus cut up and strewn about and almost directly at the head of the raised platform of ice which formed a bed tor the whole family there was a great pile of en tralle preserved tor dog meat the walls of the igloo were spattered with blood and weapons of the chase lay everywhere these included spears and harpoons long knives and a rifle that fired powder and ball A large quantity of meat killed earlier in the season bad arrived at the age and stage where it possessed a very bad odor this was not for the dogs uck gluck and his family would have fed them the fresh meat before they would have sacrificed this particular pile which was just reaching that mellow and ripe condition which strongly appealed to their palate bernard aad autta came into the igloo a few moments later and so delighted were uck gluck and his wife to learn that both of the or white men were to eat and sleep un eskimo trading station der their root that they di sported them selves like children dancing about and laughing and chattering in their own tongue bernard told me that in his pleasure uck cluck was saying that in return for the honor the walta men were showing him he would alva the the greatest hunting that white men had ever had As he bad come to hunt and as uck gluck was noted all along the coast for his prowess this was highly satisfactory bernard brought in his oil stove and we began at once to prepare our supper as we had eaten nothing but frozen meat since morning we fried our own deer meat heated a number of ship biscuit a can of corn and a can of tomatoes and made about a gallon of tea uck gluck and his wife accepted the tea and biscuits as great delicacies but only isaya his wife took advantage of the stove to cook her meat with their knives the Es almos cut oft chunks from the meat strewn about and devoured it raw laughing and chuckling as they feasted one of the children a boy of seven or eight ate a strip of pure fat that must have weighed nearly a pound |