北极有个叫北坡自治区的地方,首府在巴罗。说是自治区,其实是9个靠沿海小村子组成,总人口也就是几百人的爱斯基摩人,他们祖祖辈辈都靠捕鲸生活。1998年秋天,北坡自治区维克村的捕鲸老猎手坦尔成带领儿子库雄仁和十几个村民,要出海捕鲸,全村几乎男女老少都倾巢而出送行,坦尔成的老伴代表人们向丈夫和儿子们敬酒,坦尔成豪爽地一饮而尽,抹着沾在络腮胡子上的酒珠, The Arctic has a place called the North Slope Autonomous Region, the capital city in Barrow. To say that it is an autonomous region is actually an Eskimos consisting of nine coastal small villages with a total population of several hundred people, and they have lived by whaling for generations. In the autumn of 1998, Tang Ercheng, the whale hunting old hunter in the Vico village of the northern slope autonomous region, led his son Koo Hsiung-jen and a dozen villagers to sea-whaling. Nearly all men, women, People toasted to their husbands and sons, tantalous to drank, dipped in wine beard stained with beard,