Section 516 Journey to the North Pole (5)
We talked endlessly, eyebrows fluttering, talking about various topics about the North Pole, everyone was excited to talk for a long time, everyone felt a little tired, so lay down on the warm ice bed to rest, blink of an eye and fell asleep, and slept until early in the morning.
But when we opened our eyes, we were still a little unaccustomed to the fact that it was early in the morning, and it was still dark outside, and we were really a little unaccustomed to the boundless darkness of the day and night in the icy winter of the Arctic.
We creaked forward on the snow with searchlights, and in the howling north wind, suddenly we heard a burst of barking dogs, and it seemed that we had finally met the legendary Eskimos, because these Eskimos lived relatively scattered and scattered, and it was not always possible to meet them by chance.
We were very excited, and walked forward quickly following the sound, it turned out that in front of us was a snow room similar to ours, but it looked more spacious and delicate than our shoddy makeshift snow room, and the roof was also carefully selected to wear animal skins and other ornaments on it, it looked beautiful and magnificent, outside the snow room was a group of cute huskies, snow white, fluffy and cute, but the dogs barked non-stop, it is estimated that they had never seen a strange person like us, roaring menacingly, and the thick curtain made of bells and whistles was openedIn front of us, a few Eskimos suddenly stood out, feeling like people jumping out of a Baidu picture, exactly like the description in the book, their faces are broad, their cheekbones are prominent, the corners of their eyes are developed, their limbs are short, and their torsos are large.
However, the outer nose is more prominent, the upper and lower jawbones are strongly open, and the midline of the skull protrudes like a keel, so the facial appearance is pentagonal.
Made us feel very relatable, with the same oriental face, yellow skin, dark glasses as we did. These Eskimos are dressed in the finest leather, they use reindeer skin, bear skin, fox skin, seal skin, sewing and mending, a variety of leather mixed together, it looks like a kind of local tyrant instant sense, if you wear a heavy gold necklace, that feeling is even more imminent, they use animal fur as raw material, can best resist the cold of the Arctic, their upper body only wears a thick skin, no underwear, the leather jacket is very light, although the mouth is open underneath, but the warm air rises, so it will not be lost from below.
The leather jacket is fastened tightly with a hood to prevent heat from escaping from it. If it feels hot, just loosen the hat slightly and let the heat run away.
The edges of the cap are inlaid with wolf shrubs or wolf skins, because these two skins are different from other furs, so the water exhaled by a person does not condense into ice on them.
They wore several pairs of shoes, one over the other, and the outermost long wolfskin boots were worn over the soft shoes to make it easier for them to walk in the snow, and their mittens were wide and up to the sleeves.
After looking at their thick costumes, I secretly thought that these Eskimos were really clever, and their clothes made clever use of the physical properties of air, the principle that hot air does not escape downward.
It's very warm and easy to move around. So they put on this outfit, and they can handle it calmly in the cold of minus forty or fifty degrees, and it is not a problem to stay for a few hours.
But these Eskimos they have been looking at us intently with a kind of focused and strange eyes, and then twittering, twittering and dancing for a long time, but unfortunately we don't understand anything, fortunately our Xiaofei has been trained by their company, a little bit of Eskimo language, he stammered, stammered with half-baked, word by word, and talked to them, while comparing and drawing, we were confused and watched them.
Later, Xiao Fei, a competent interpreter, explained to us that they had asked us where we had come from and how we had come from and that they had made the long journey to their very cold place, where they had lived for generations, and had never seen us from afar beyond the Arctic Circle, so we were very welcome, and they warmly reopened the closed door curtain and let us go into their snow hut for a rest, so we could not shirk the hospitality of the Eskimos, and the group happily walked into their snow hut one after the other。