We happily went out with them, before going out they also thoughtfully let each of us put on a special foreign reindeer fur coat against the wind and snow, the Eskimos also put on the same wide windproof coat as us, a group of fluffy snow-white cheerful Huskies outside the snow room saw that the owner was going out to hunt, excitedly barked, danced, ready to move, and for us is no longer an uninvited guest with a menacing expression, but a pleasant face, a happy expression, they are the most loyal friends of the Eskimos。

In addition to pulling sleds in the winter and carrying things in the summer, the western Eskimos also used them to tug boats and engage in fiber pulling.

When hunting, dogs are used to find the seal's breathing holes, and when they encounter large animals such as musk oxen or polar bears, the hunter releases the dog on the sled and lets the dogs besiege the prey, dragging it down so that the hunter can shoot it.

And huskies and dogs are generally good guards of the house, reporting to their owners the arrival of enemies or dangerous animals.

In the event of an extreme shortage of food, the Eskimos would kill dogs to eat. When you go out hunting with a dog sled, if you get lost and have no food, prying the dog can save the hunter's life.

There are also several sealskin dinghys outside the igloos, and the Eskimo kayaks are unique in that they are framed with wood and then covered with a few sealskins or walrus skins, making them light and waterproof.

There are two types of kayaks used by the Eskimos: one is the open-top boat, which the Eskimos call the Umiak.

Each of these boats is 9 meters long and can carry 900 kilograms of cargo and eight people at the same time, which can be easily carried away by four people, and can be started with a few paddles, rowers and a sail.

Alaskan Eskimos usually tethered their dogs to the bow of their boats, let them drag the boat on the shore or riverbank, the helmsman kept the boat at a distance from the shore, and one person rowed the boat, and then put the dog on the boat when it encountered a horn or land ahead.

The other is a ship with cabins, which the Eskimos call Kojak. The style and materials of this boat are different from place to place, but the hull is narrow, fast and easy to maneuver is the same common denominator.

This type of boat is mainly used for hunting, and it is used to chase prey quickly and maneuvering. Measuring 6 meters long and 1 meter wide, the hull can accommodate only one person, and the boat's double oars and narrow hull make the sealskin dinghy very agile both at sea and on ice.

The style is similar to the one-man kayak used in the modern Olympic Games, and in fact the latter is based on the former.

Eskimos are natural hunters, and hunting is the traditional way of life of Eskimos. Or rather, hunting in the Arctic is the prerogative of the Eskimos.

They have been hunting for generations. Illuminated by the faint light of oil lamps, we rode on a sleigh in the dark winter of the Arctic.

The snow was very slippery, and we glided on the snow at a galloping speed, with the roaring arctic wind in our ears, it was really a feeling of speed and passion, and it didn't take long to reach our destination.

Now in the cold of winter, the sea is frozen, but these clever Eskimos are quite wise, and they take a different approach to hunting seals, mainly because they know the habits of the Arctic animals here, because seals are mammals, although they live in the sea, they have to breathe by their lungs, so they have to constantly float to the surface to breathe the air before diving into the water.

Seals can stay underwater for a few minutes with each inhale, and can stay in the water for up to about 20 minutes.

If this time is exceeded, they will suffocate to death. But because the Arctic freezes in winter, seals can't find a place to breathe under the ice, so they dig a hole in the ice from the bottom up to serve as a breathing hole.

During the winter months, when the sea freezes for months, it is a difficult time when the Eskimos have the least source of food.

The Eskimos here have a very good way of finding seals. The Eskimos hunted seals by looking for their breathing holes.

We had no experience, so we had to watch the Eskimos come with interest, only to see that they had a kit of tools with fishing hooks, nets, fishing baskets, harpoons, and then went their separate ways, tirelessly searching for seals' breathing holes on the ice for kilometers off the coast.

But soon they easily found a batch of breathing holes that were not very easy to detect, and then these Eskimos were ready to go at the same time, waiting for a person next to each breathing hole, laying a net, and then carefully not making the slightest sound, and quietly waiting in the urn to catch turtles and wait patiently for the ginger teeth to fish, and the willing to take the bait.

In this way, if a seal is scared away in one breathing hole, it is bound to inhale in the other breathing hole. Guarding every breathing hole in an area, the seals are forced to be captured.

In a few moments, they had caught a hapless seal, with their finely crafted harpoons, and with great merit they dragged it to the sleigh, and by the way they had preyed on a variety of red sea fish, including cod, salmon, trout and sockeye salmon.

The huskies also followed their owners, yelling excitedly to celebrate today's bumper harvest, and the rations were finally available, and everyone looked happy.

However, the Eskimos did not retreat immediately, and they also made an ice hole two meters on each side of the breathing hole, and carefully placed a net that was more than four meters long and about one meter wide in the water between the two holes.

The ends of the net are pulled out of the ice with ropes and tied to the ice blocks stacked next to them when the ice is opened. At the lower end of the net, stones are placed every half a meter to keep the net vertical.

The upper end of the net should be kept at a distance from the ice surface so that the net does not freeze on the bottom surface of the ice. Catching seals in this way is based on the same principle as fishing with sticky nets.

After listening to Xiaofei's translation, after the net was opened, they would have to wait for another two or three days to dig the ice surface, and then they could sit firmly on the Diaoyu Tai to collect the prey.