The sealskins are seldom employed for any part of the dress except boots and shoes, as being more capable of resisting water, and of far greater durability than other leather.
The price of sealskins will be reduced two-thirds to the wearer.
Before that time it had been the custom of the government to send Alaskan sealskins to Europe, where they were cured and dyed.
Cut into strips, the sealskins of which they were made would serve very well indeed for netting the snowshoes.
Presently one of thesealskins was freed from the bag, and while Andy held it, David, working carefully with his jackknife, cutting around the edge in a spiral, soon reduced it into a single long string.
He found there three Americans, who were residing upon the islands to prepare sealskinsand oil.
Captain Guy also purchased of Glass five hundred sealskins and some ivory.
The population occupied themselves chiefly in collecting sealskins and sea elephant oil, with which they traded to the Cape of Good Hope, Glass owning a small schooner.
In the early part of spring, though it may still be very cold, a few choice young sealskins are dried on snow walls which face to the south.
The Tornit could not clean the sealskins so well as the Inuit, but worked them up with part of the blubber attached.
Kadlu makes the thunder by rubbing sealskinsand singing.
When the rays of the sun begin to be warmer and the roofs of the snow houses tumble down the natives live in a very uncomfortable way until a sufficient number of sealskins are procured to build a tent.
Probably the greater part of the tribe live inland from July to March, hunting deer and the musk ox, and in winter only descend to the sea in order to procure blubber and sealskinsduring the season in which these are most easily obtained.
By the first of May all the natives have procured a sufficient number of sealskins for their summer dress, the skins being then in the best condition, as the first moulting has just occurred.
When so prepared the sealskins are only fit for covering tents, making bags, &c.
They therefore exchange the solid snow houses for light tents, which are very small and poor, until a sufficient number of sealskins for better structures is secured.
How about those two last sealskins we didn't salt down, or pack up with the rest in the puncheon?
Thirty sealskins and twenty barrels of oil," replied Fritz at once; he and Eric had counted over their little store too often for him not to have their tally at his fingers' ends!
The skipper also advised their taking a barrel of coarse salt to cure their sealskins with, as well as empty casks to contain what oil they managed to boil down.
Tristaners, my good people, look out for your sealskinsand oil in future; we, crusoes, are going into the business wholesale!
Howsomever, the old skipper has sent me in his stead, to bring you some letters and take home any cargo you might have ready in sealskins and oil.
Nine years later, the captain of another ship that called there found three Americans settled on the island, preparing sealskins and boiling down oil.
Deerskin tents are used by the Anderson River natives,[N163] while sealskins are still in use in Greenland and the east generally.
It has a frame of wood, which appears to be all of spruce, held together by treenails and whalebone lashings, and is covered with white-tanned sealskins with the grain side out.
There will be no new sealskins here, for every man and woman must give half his income to keep the cigarman's son marching over dead Germans, some of whom grunt and turn under his feet.
To soften the sealskins of which the boots, shoes, and mittens are made, the women chew them for an hour or two together and the young girls are often seen employed in thus preparing the materials for their mothers.
The elderly women were still well furnished in this way, though their teeth were usually a good deal worn down, probably by the habit of chewing the sealskins for making boots.
Sealskins should be wrapped up in newspaper and stored in a cool place when put away.
Sealskins must never be dried by a heater or stove as the heat shrivels them and they are ruined.
On long climbs sealskins are usually used on the Skis.
The sealskins are worn during rainy weather and by those who are in the canoe or kaiak.
The largest sealskinsare used for oilbags, and may contain as much as 300 pounds of fat or oil.
By this time, with the ambergris back and five thousand extra sealskins below, all hands were willing to take a moderate chance on almost anything.
There were also four or five thousand other fine sealskins which weren't ours, but which we took along, knowing they weren't Red Dick's.
We boarded Red Dick's steamer, and there were our sealskins and ambergris.
The hatches were off her hold and our sealskins and our ambergris gone from below.
He found there three Americans, who were residing upon the island to prepare sealskins and oil.
The tannage of sealskinsdepends upon the size of the skins, the purpose for which they are intended, and whether they have been split or not in the limed state.
In soaking sealskins the object is not only to soften thoroughly, but also to effect the recovery of as much seal oil as possible before the liming commences.
The methods are very closely similar to those used for goatskins and sealskins (Part II.
The removal of the oil is materially assisted by raising its temperature, so that the soaking of sealskins is often done with warm water (85 deg.
In the case of sealskins this is done largely before liming, but with sheepskins either after being struck through with tan, or after tannage is complete.
The West of England tannage is similar to those noted for sealskins when oak bark and sumach are employed (Section III.
The principal sales of general furs are held in London in January and March, smaller offerings being made in June and October; while the bulk of fur sealskins is sold separately in December.
Of sealskins there are two distinct classes, the fur seals and the hair seals.
Then of a sudden Harold saw twelve skins lying upon the shore in the moonlight; and they were the comeliest and most precious sealskins that ever he saw, and he coveted them.
It was a big sacrifice for him to part with his wife and son, for it is the teeth of the women that must chew the sealskins to make them pliable for shoes and clothes: it is the fingers of women that do all the sewing.
The women don't have to spend their time chewing on thesealskins to make them pliable for shoes and garments.
He had been supplied with a long lance and a couple of spears, to which latter were attached, by thongs of walrus hide, two inflated sealskins to act as buoys.
Sealskins hung about the walls drying; oily mittens, socks and boots were suspended about on pegs and racks of rib-bones.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "sealskins" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
