Note 142 — Chapter IV · FIRE AND FOOD Part II.

See Encyclopædia Britannica, 11th ed., article “Eskimo”: “The Eskimo are enormous meat-eaters; two will easily dispose of a seal at a sitting; and in Greenland, for instance, each individual has for his daily consumption, on an average, 2½ lbs. of flesh with blubber, and 1 lb. of fish.... 10 lbs. of flesh in addition to other food is not uncommonly consumed in a day in time of plenty.” See also J. Deniker, The Races of Man, p. 149: “Some few northern tribes, the Eskimo, the Cukchi, eat ... reindeer’s flesh and fish quite raw.” See also Nansen, Eskimo Life, pp. 89–92: “They can consume at a sitting astonishing quantities of meat, blubber, fish, etc.... Meat and fish are eaten sometimes raw.... The blubber of seals and whales is generally eaten raw.... The Greenlander is also very fond of raw sealskin with the blubber.” See also Vilhjalmur Stefansson, My Life with the Eskimo, pp. 170, 278, etc.