Eskimo folk-tales . An inland-dweller, half dog, half human, pointing out asettlement for A tupilak frightening a man to death in his kayak. THE INLAND-DWELLERS OF ETAH THERE came a sledge driving round to the east of Etah, upinto the land, near the great lake. Suddenly the dogsscented something, and dashed off inland over a great they checked, and sniffed at the ground. And now it wasrevealed that they were at the entrance to an inland-dwellers house. The inland-dwellers screamed aloud with fear when they saw thedogs, and thrust out an old woman, but hurried in t
Eskimo folk-tales . An inland-dweller, half dog, half human, pointing out asettlement for A tupilak frightening a man to death in his kayak. THE INLAND-DWELLERS OF ETAH THERE came a sledge driving round to the east of Etah, upinto the land, near the great lake. Suddenly the dogsscented something, and dashed off inland over a great they checked, and sniffed at the ground. And now it wasrevealed that they were at the entrance to an inland-dwellers house. The inland-dwellers screamed aloud with fear when they saw thedogs, and thrust out an old woman, but hurried in themselves to old woman died of fright when she saw the dogs. Now the man went in, very ill at ease because he had caused thedeath of the old woman. It is a sad thing, he said, that I should have caused you tolose that old one. It is nothing, answered the inland-dwellers; her skin wasalready wrinkled ; it does not matter at all. Then the sledges drove home again, but the inland-dwellers wereso terrified that they fled far up into the country. Since then they have never been seen. The remains of
Size: 2311px × 1081px
Photo credit: © The Reading Room / Alamy / Afripics
License: Licensed
Model Released: No
Keywords: ., bookcentury1900, bookdecade1920, bookpublisherlondon, bookyear192
