Eskimo Notes Point Barrow, Alaska May 22 the fact remains that the population is essentially dependent upon the creatures of the sea and air for their support. For example the Navy Base here is scheduled to reduce or terminate its operations shortly and no doubt will throw the economy back to its previous basis. Trapping of five animals is a small industry - foxes, the arctic and an occasional seal, a few polar bears each year, and when I was in the village the other day it was reported a party had just secured a wolf hunted from an airplane. But it is the whales and seals, and the ducks - masses of migrating eiders - that supply the main food. The eskimo stores food in permafrost lochere, merely an excavation in the frozen ground. One near the village has a wooden frame top about 4' square and the hole some 6' or 8' square goes down perhaps 10'; then there is a cavity off this shaft that leads back probably not very far. The shaft and side tunnel were nearly filled by chunks of whale recently thrown in