Word: komatik
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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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...
...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...
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