Identifier: ridpathsuniversa08ridp (find matches)
Title: Ridpath's Universal history : an account of the origin, primitive condition and ethnic development of the great races of mankind, and of the principal events in the evolution and progress of the civilized life among men and nations, from recent and authentic sources with a preliminary inquiry on the time, place and manner of the beginning
Year: 1897 (1890s)
Authors: Ridpath, John Clark, 1840-1900
Subjects: World history
Publisher: Cincinnati : Jones
Contributing Library: University of Pittsburgh Library System
Digitizing Sponsor: Lyrasis Members and Sloan Foundation

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ugh forthe accommodation of all. In the New World, within the arcticcircle, and even far below that line, thesame manner of life is pursued asin Greenland and Northern Asia. The NOR THERN ABORIGINES. — THE ESQUIMj11.V 445 Innuit habitations of arctic America are like those described above, at any rate as far west as the Rocky Innuit habita-tions of the mountains. It has been ob- Northwest. -, 1 ,-, served, however, that westof this meridian the Innuit habitationstake another form. The inhabitants in theextremes of Northwestern North Amer-ica prefer to build their houses in theground, or at least to construct them of The entrance is effected at one end, orside, by means of a trench, or sunkenpassway, which approaches the floor ofthe hut on a level with it. Nearly allof the Esquimau abodes west of theupper spurs of the Rocky mountainsare of the pattern here described. Thoseeast of this meridian are built of .snowor ice above ground, and most of themmelt away with the coming of spring.
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HUNTING SEALS—Drawn by Riou. earthy materials. In Kamchatka thisplan of structure is, as we have seen, al-most universal. A square cavity, somesix feet in depth, is excavated in theearth. Wooden posts are set in theground, in the bottom, and on thesejoists are laid to support the roof. Awicker work of reeds and twigs is thenused for thatch between the beams, andover all a thick layer of turf is spread.This roof is above the surface of theground, so that the hut presents theappearance of a mound, having an ap-erture in the center, out of which is-sues the smoke of the subterraneanabode, and through which a smallamount of light is admitted below. It has been noted by travelers that theinhabitants of these abodes take littlepains to relieve them of accumulatingfilth and waste materials of the family.As a consequence, the residence by thebeginning of spring has become exceed-ingly contaminated, and would be intol-erable but for the rigor of the climate. The house of the Esquimau is scar

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