Word: sharpen
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Murdoch gave also a short description of the methods of transportation on sledges and then finished with a description of a peculiar method of trapping wolves. The Eskimos take a piece of whalebone about a foot long, sharpen it at both ends, and bend it into the shape of a letter Z. This bone is then imbedded in a piece of blubber and frozen there so that it retains its Z shape. When a wolf sees one of these balls of blubber he swallows the mass whole. The heat of his stomach melts the blubber and the whalebone, thus...