Note 58 — XXVI. URINE AND ORDURE IN INDUSTRIES.
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They also keep urine in tubs in their huts for use in dressing deer and seal skins. (Hans Egede; also quoted in Richardson’s “Polar Regions,” Edinburgh, 1861, p. 304.) The same custom has been noted in Alaska. The same thing mentioned by Egede’s grand-nephew, Hans Egede Saabye. (“Greenland,” London, 1816, p. 6.)