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... Eskimo family which Clavering discovered in Latitude 74 ° N. , in 1823 , are the only Eskimos who had ever been actually seen alive on the east coast of Greenland north of the Angmagssalik area . As the Greenland Government would not do ...
... Eskimo family which Clavering discovered in Latitude 74 ° N. , in 1823 , are the only Eskimos who had ever been actually seen alive on the east coast of Greenland north of the Angmagssalik area . As the Greenland Government would not do ...
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... Eskimos know this , and always put a nail point downwards on each runner of the rifle - rest , so that it will not slide . Why the devil couldn't he tell me before ? Where the ice was a little thicker we found the breathing holes of a ...
... Eskimos know this , and always put a nail point downwards on each runner of the rifle - rest , so that it will not slide . Why the devil couldn't he tell me before ? Where the ice was a little thicker we found the breathing holes of a ...
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... Eskimos he was bow - legged and a most ungainly walker . The Angmagssalik Eskimos spend so much of their time in their kayaks that their legs are definitely under- developed . Enock's feet were most curiously deformed from the ...
... Eskimos he was bow - legged and a most ungainly walker . The Angmagssalik Eskimos spend so much of their time in their kayaks that their legs are definitely under- developed . Enock's feet were most curiously deformed from the ...
Contents
DISAPPOINTMENTS AND NEW PROJECTS | 2 |
WE VISIT SCORESBY SOUND | 13 |
THE TRAGEDY | 32 |
Copyright | |
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Angmagssalik Angmagssalik Fjord Arctic bear bearded seal birds Black Guillemots blubber boat Brunnich's Guillemots Cape Captain clouds crevasses dark dogs Enock Enock and Kidarsi Eskimos expedition feet fish fjord seals float floe frozen Gino glacier Glaucous Gulls Greenland Guillemots harpoon head Hell Corner hills hole hunters hunting Ice Cap ice-floe iceberg Ikerasak inches island John journey Kangerdlugsuak Kangerdlugsuatsiak Karali kayak Knud Rasmussen Kuamiut Lake Fjord land Little Auks looked meat Mikkelsen miles morning mountains musk ox natives Nigertusok night once open water pack pack-ice paddle pulled Qasiattak Quintin reached Riley round Rymill salmon Scoresby Sound sea-ice seal-meat seal-skin Sermiligak settlement ship shoot shore shot side skin skis sledge snow Snow Buntings soon started steep Stella suddenly swell tent to-day tracks umiak walk Watkins waves weather wind winter winter-house yards