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...content to hug the coast. Their needs are few: cod, salmon, trout and seabirds for food, seal for their blubber lamps. They neither wash nor cook, and they have no need for roads. The sea is their kayak highway in summer; during the long winter, transport by husky-drawn komatik (sled) is fast and cheap...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NEWFOUNDLAND: Floating Poll | 8/19/1946 | See Source »

...helping with breakfast (canned grapefruit juice, canned butter, toast made from bread which Bell baked himself, canned bacon, powdered eggs and coffee) and cleaning up afterwards; of replenishing the coal supply and providing water from blocks of lake ice; of serving Eskimos who mush in from trapping posts by komatik (dog sled...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Canada: NORTHWEST TERRITORIES: Call of the North | 3/18/1946 | See Source »

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