Show Esquimau Candy i would seem very strange and perhaps per-haps not very pleasant to my young readers to hear a tallow candle or the shin bone of a reindeer called candy And yet these things may really be considered as Esquimau candy because they would delight the children of the cold in precisely pre-cisely the way that a box of bonbons would delight you The is a certain kind of water fowl in Arctic countries known as the dovekie I is about the size of a duck is quite black has a prominent white stripe on its wings and its webbed feet are of 1 brilliant red When sitting in rows on the edge of greenish rock these little red feet are very conspicuous con-spicuous Sometimes when the men have killed a number of dovekies the Esquimau women cut off the bright red feet draw out the bones and blowing into the skins distend them as much as possible so as to form pouches When these pouches are thoroughly dried they are filled with reindeer tallow and die bright red packages which I assure you look much nicer than they taste are little Boreas candy In very cold weather the Esquimau children cat great quantities of fat and blnbber and this fatty food which seems to us so uninviting helps to I keep them warm and well The only other kind of candy that the I Esquimau children have i H tie marrow from the long leg or shin bone of the slaughtered reindeer Of this also 1 they are very fond Whenever I reindeer I is killed and the meat has heen i stripped from the bones of the legs these bones 1 are placed on the floor of the igloo 1 and cracked with a hatchet until the i marrow is i exposed The bones are then forced apart with the hands and the marI mar-I row is dug out of the ends with a long sharp and narrow spoon made from a walrus tusk I have eaten this reindeer marrow frozen and cooked and after one I I becomes accustomed to eating frozen I meat raw it is really an acceptable tidbit tid-bit while cooked and nicely served it I would he a m delicacy anywhere Lieut Schwatka in St Nicholas |