. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. and thick hair,which they braid and tie up in a knot on the head. Theyare often tattooed with black stripes on their faces, arms,and hands. The Eskimos generally eat flesh raw, but sometimes theyboil it or dry it in the wind. Fish are caught in the springand dried so as to be used for winter provisions. In the fallthey catch seal, bury the flesh under the snow, and in thewinter they dig it up and eat it raw and frozen. The dead are buried in graves made of stones throwntogether in a heap. The Eskimo language presents a few remarkable iden-tities and re
. The voyages of the Norsemen to America. and thick hair,which they braid and tie up in a knot on the head. Theyare often tattooed with black stripes on their faces, arms,and hands. The Eskimos generally eat flesh raw, but sometimes theyboil it or dry it in the wind. Fish are caught in the springand dried so as to be used for winter provisions. In the fallthey catch seal, bury the flesh under the snow, and in thewinter they dig it up and eat it raw and frozen. The dead are buried in graves made of stones throwntogether in a heap. The Eskimo language presents a few remarkable iden-tities and resemblances with the Old Norse language. Thusthe word kona, a woman, used by the Eskimos in Egedestime, was used in the same sense by the Norsemen. A por-poise, in the Eskimo language nisa^ was in Old Norse calledhnisa. We may supplement this description of Egede with someremarks about the present day Eskimos, which probablyapply also to those of former times. In South Greenland,that is, south of Holstensborg, the Eskimos do not keep any. Eskimo Woman from Greenland By courtesy of Cajyt. D. Bruun \%iU:-J.^ikl
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