In enumerating the articles of their food, we might perhaps give a list of every animal inhabiting these regions, as they certainly will at times eat any one of them. Their principal dependence, however, is on the reindeer (_tōōktoŏ_), musk-ox (_ōōmĭngmŭk_)(in the parts where this animal is found), whale (_āggăwĕk_), walrus (_ēi-ŭ-ĕk_), the large and small seal (_ōgŭke_ and _nēitiek_), and two sorts of salmon, the _ēwĕe-tārŏke_ (_salmo alpinus_?) and _ichlūŏwŏke_. The latter is taken by hooks in freshwater lakes, and the former by spearing in the shoal water of certain inlets of the sea. Of all these animals they can only procure in the winter the walrus and small seal upon this part of the coast; and these at times, as we have seen, in scarcely sufficient quantity for their subsistence. They certainly in general prefer eating their meat cooked, and while they have fuel they usually boil it; but this is a luxury and not a necessary to them. Oily as the nature of their principal food is, yet they commonly take an equal proportion of lean to their fat, and unless very hungry do not eat it otherwise. Oil they seldom or never use in any way as a part of their general diet; and even our butter, of which they were fond, they would not eat without a due quantity of bread. They do not like salt meat as well as fresh, and never use salt themselves; but ship’s pork, or even a red herring, did not come amiss to them. Of pea-soup they would eat as much as the sailors could afford to give them; and that word was the only one, with the exception of our names, which many of them ever learned in English. Among their own luxuries must be mentioned a rich soup called _kāyŏ_, made of blood, gravy, and water, and eaten quite hot. In obtaining the names of several plants, we learned that they sometimes eat the leaves of sorrel (_kōngŏlek_), and those of the ground willow; as also the red berries (_paōōna-rootik_) of the _vaccinium uliginosum_, and the root of the _potentilla pulchella_; but these cannot be said to form a part of their regular diet; scurvy grass they never eat.