The Eskimos laughed at all the things that seemed so strange and
foolish to them. They laughed, too, about the useful things that the
white men brought. It was good to light a seal oil lamp with matches
instead of a bow-drill. It was safer to kill a polar bear with a gun
than with a spear.
Now that the Eskimos had guns, hunting was easier, but they had to
do more of it. They killed animals for their own use, and they did
extra hunting because they needed furs to trade with the white men for
bullets and guns and new things to make their homes more comfortable.
[Illustration: Hunters drove caribou into lakes where it was easy to
shoot them from kayaks.]
[Illustration: This kind of house was called an igloo, just as snow
houses were.]