Eskimos And Tobacco

"There are inany iuteresting featureB about the Eskimos of Alaska, ' ' said A. C. Bruce, who is in charge of Lake Charles Reindeer station, at the Gibson. "One of the most interesting features of tliis peculiar people to me has been their habit of smoking. They are invetérate smokers without regard to Bex. Their pipes are made of walrus tusks and are hollowed out in such a rnanner that a great deal of the tobáceo as well as the smoke is inhaled. They will meet every whaling or other vessel, and almost any kind of a trade can be made for smoking tobáceo. They will deliver up the ivory of the walrus at very much less than its value and take in exchange smoking tobáceo at several times its real worth. The greatest punishment you can inflict upon an Eskimo is to deprive