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at once. At the end of summer the trout ascend the rivers to spawn, and the Eskimos maintain that they remain in the lakes during the winter.
Soon a new, long winter begins in this barren, arctic land. It is the caribou that make it inhabitable and, if some day their tremendous herds disappear, the days of the Eskimos on the Barren Grounds will be numbered, unless a new life, based upon reindeer breeding, opens up for them.
