Eskimo LifeLongmans, Green, and Company, 1893 - Broj stranica: 350 Observations of Eskimos during stay at Godthab, west Greenland, in winter of 1888-89 after crossing of Greenland ice sheet. Translation of Norwegian original Eskimoliv published in 1891. |
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... scarcely possible to live for any time among these people without conceiving an affection for them - for that , one winter is more than enough . During the long , dark evenings , as I sat in the low earth - huts and gazed at the flame ...
... scarcely possible to live for any time among these people without conceiving an affection for them - for that , one winter is more than enough . During the long , dark evenings , as I sat in the low earth - huts and gazed at the flame ...
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... moving in great masses , as in the case of larger migrations , we need only reflect that their present inhospitable abiding - places can scarcely have been inhabited , at any rate permanently , before they took 6 ESKIMO LIFE.
... moving in great masses , as in the case of larger migrations , we need only reflect that their present inhospitable abiding - places can scarcely have been inhabited , at any rate permanently , before they took 6 ESKIMO LIFE.
Stranica 9
... scarcely have paid mere passing visits to them . It is not impossible that the Eskimos might simply have taken to their heels when the Norwegian viking - ships appeared in the offing ; we , too , found them do so upon the east coast ...
... scarcely have paid mere passing visits to them . It is not impossible that the Eskimos might simply have taken to their heels when the Norwegian viking - ships appeared in the offing ; we , too , found them do so upon the east coast ...
Stranica 11
... on the west coast . Even if the Eskimos are meant in the passage about the troll - women , which is extremely doubtful , it may very well be a late interpolation . it . Thus it can scarcely have been such a GREENLAND AND THE ESKIMO 11.
... on the west coast . Even if the Eskimos are meant in the passage about the troll - women , which is extremely doubtful , it may very well be a late interpolation . it . Thus it can scarcely have been such a GREENLAND AND THE ESKIMO 11.
Stranica 12
Fridtjof Nansen. it . Thus it can scarcely have been such a war alone that caused the downfall of the colony . We may , perhaps , attribute it partly to natural decline due to seclusion from the world , partly to absorption of the race ...
Fridtjof Nansen. it . Thus it can scarcely have been such a war alone that caused the downfall of the colony . We may , perhaps , attribute it partly to natural decline due to seclusion from the world , partly to absorption of the race ...
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