" "No. Big Innuit feast.

" "Do many people go?" "All Innuit go, plenty Ingalik go.

" "Humph!" grunted Nicholas scornfully; "him no got Innuit sled.

His people belong to that branch of the Innuits known as Kaviaks.

I've been told to-day that, whether in Alaska, Greenland, or British America, they call themselves Innuits, which means human beings.

"I thought the Esquimos lived in snow houses," said Ted, as they looked at the queer little huts, and Kalitan exclaimed: "Huh! Innuit queer Indian!" "No," said Mr. Strong; "his hut is built by digging a hole about six feet deep and standing logs up side by side around the hole.

The bowl filled with seal oil, which served as fire and light, was unlighted, and Alalik's father motioned to her and said something in Innuit, to which she smilingly replied: "My father wishes you to eat with us," she said, and produced her flint bag.

It relates probably to the Innuits of Alaska.

These were deposited in a remarkable manner, precisely similar to that adopted by most of the continental Innuit, but equally different from the modern Aleut fashion.

It had evidently been tied up in the Innuit fashion to get it into its narrow house, but all the bones, with the exception of the skull, were minced to a soft paste, or even entirely gone.

W. H. Dall, well known as one of the most experienced and careful of American Ethnologic observers, describes the burial boxes of the Innuits of Unalaklik, Innuits of Yuka, and Ingaliks of Ulukuk as follows: Figs.

W. H. Dall, well known as one of the most experienced and careful of American Ethnologic observers, describes the burial boxes of the Innuits of Unalaklik, Innuits of Yuka, and Ingaliks of Ulukuk as follows: Figs.

13.Innuit Grave.] INNUIT OF UNALAKLIK.

[Illustration: FIG. 14.Ingalik grave.] INNUIT OF YUKON.

Mrs. Lermontoff, in lamenting the Tahitian's degradation, physical and spiritual, said that she was reminded always of the Innuit, the Eskimo, among whom she and her husband had passed several years.

"But," said Lermontoff, "the Innuit, too, is corrupting under the influence of trade, of alcohol, and the savage lust of the white adventurer.

"To have placed it on the floor or on the platform behind the fire-lamp, among the walrus, musk-ox, and polar-bear meat which occupy a goodly portion of both of these places, would have horrified the whole town, as, according to the actual belief of the Innuits, not another walrus could be secured this year, and there would ever be trouble in catching any more."