Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 21, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 May 1896 — Eskimo Wolf Trapping. [ARTICLE]

Eskimo Wolf Trapping.

Field and Stream tells of a curious way by which Eskimos catch wolves. They plant a stake in the ice, with a sharp piece of flint on the end, which is wrapped witli seal or other blubber. Along come the wolves and go to licking the frozen blubber. After a while they get down to the flint and cut tlielr tongues on it. Being ravenously hungry, when they taste the warm blood they fall to and chew the life out of one another. The familiar trick of putting a bent piece of sharpened whalebone into a ball of blubber, which is released by the heat of the animal's stomach and results in the death of the animal, is much less effective than the flint stake because nearly whole packs of wolves are killed by the latter device.