Their food is meat, and meat only.

That they cannot live on any other food I know, for I have made the experiment.

For water they eat snow.
[Illustration: THE WHALE BOAT RETURNING TO THE SHIP FROM THE WALRUS HUNT] The dogs are not housed at any season of the year; but summer and winter they are tied somewhere near the tent or igloo.

They are never allowed to roam at large, lest they be lost.

Sometimes a special pet, or a female that has young puppies, will be taken into the igloo for a time; but Eskimo puppies only a month old are so hardy that they can stand the severe winter weather.
[Illustration: KING ESKIMO DOG] Enough has been said to give the reader a general idea of these strange people, that have been so valuable to me in my arctic work.