Democratic Sentinel, Volume 7, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 1 June 1883 — Killing Wolves With Whalebone. [ARTICLE]

Killing Wolves With Whalebone.

■Lieut. Schwatka says that “one nae of the -whalebone to which the Esquimaux put it, mid one case which came under my personal observation, I must not allow to pass unnoticed. Wheiever wolves have been unusually predatory, have destroyed a favorite dog or so, or dug up a cache of reindeer meat just when it was needed, pr in any way have

aroused the ire of fed Ifinuit hunter, he takes a strip of whalebone about the size of those used in oorsets, wraps it np into compact helical mass like a watch spring, having previously sharpened both ends, then ties it together with reindeer sinew, and plasters it with a compound of blood and grease, wMch is allowed to freeze, and forms a binding cement sufficiently strong to hold the sinew string at every second or third ttflPBA This, wife a lot of simf-lar-looking bait* of 'meatblubber, is scattered- over fee snow or groflUa, and the hungry wc*f devours it along with the others, anil when it is thawedout by fee warmth ol his stomach, it elongates and has the hell-known effect of whalebone on the system, but, having the military advantage of interior lines, its effects are more killing fed poOr WOlf, with the mosV horrible agonies, iff a eouple of days."