12. There are not many Red men left in North America. Most of them have
died off. Many of those who now remain have given up their old way of
living.

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27. THE ESKIMOS.


1. Here is another picture for you. Look at it carefully. It shows you
the people who live in the far north of Canada. They are called Eskimos.

[Illustration: Amongst the Eskimos.]

2. In the upper part of the picture you see a man on a sledge. He is
dressed in furs, and has fur gloves on his hands. His head and ears are
covered with a hood. In the far north of Canada the cold is so bitter in
winter that men's hands and ears would be frost-bitten if they were not
kept warm in this way.

3. In winter the sea and the land are thickly frozen over. The whole
country is covered with ice and snow. The Eskimo has to travel over the
ice to get from place to place. He uses a sledge drawn by dogs. There is
a team of dogs in the upper part of the picture.

4. Sometimes the sledge is overturned, and the men and dogs are thrown
into deep, wide cracks in the ice. Sometimes fierce storms arise, and
men and dogs perish together. Sometimes food runs short, and they die of
hunger.