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Richly Clad in Sealskin

RICHLY CLAD IN SEALSKIN

Nimrod of the Pampas

NIMROD OF THE PAMPAS

No Monk, Despite the Cowl

NO MONK, DESPITE THE COWL

Dappled black on silver, the hair of the Labrador seal is very handsome, if coarse, and makes up into suits exceedingly becoming to young Eskimo womanhood The true nomad hunter. Among the rugged Andean strongholds, and the surrounding vast treeless plains, the Tehuelche lives his primitive picturesque life in a world of his own Childlike simplicity, characteristic of all the Eskimos, is patent in the attitude and expression of this Okak villager whose plump rotundity would have beseemed an abbot of old