Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 205, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 August 1913 — Ducks an Important Food Supply. [ARTICLE]

Ducks an Important Food Supply.

Concerning certain features of Eskimo life (along the north coast of Alaska, the account written by Yllhjalmar Stefrfnsson says: “In the spring and summer ducks and geese, especially the former, are an Important item of diet. They are pursued in kayaks when molting and killed with clubs, and large numbers of them are also secured by bolas throwing, for the migrant route of the ducks along the coast Is so definitely known that a man can stand all day and rely on it that three out of every four ducks will fly within throwing distance. So thickly do the birds come that nowadays a competent man with a shotgun has been known to secure as many as 600 ducks In a day."