Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . A TUPIK. standard of value ; without written language ; with-out property, except clothing and weapons ; theirfood nothing but meat, blood, and blubber ; withoutsalt, or any substance of vegetable origin ; theirclothing the skins o
Northward over the great ice : a narrative of life and work along the shores and upon the interior ice-cap of northern Greenland in the years 1886 and 1891-1897, with a description of the little tribe of Smith Sound Eskimos, the most northerly human beings in the world, and an account of the discovery and bringing home of the Saviksue or great Cape York meteorites . A TUPIK. standard of value ; without written language ; with-out property, except clothing and weapons ; theirfood nothing but meat, blood, and blubber ; withoutsalt, or any substance of vegetable origin ; theirclothing the skins of birds and animals; almosttheir only two objects in life, something to eat and Accurate census September i, 1895. Between this date and August 9, 1896, an epidemic of influenza reduced their number to 229. In August, 1897, they numbered 234. Appendix II 481 something with which to clothe themselves, and theirsole occupation the struggle for these objects ; withhabits and conditions of life hardly above the ani-mal, these people seem at first to be very near thebottom of the scale of civilisation ; yet closer acquaint-. Long Hair of the Men. ance shows them to be quick, intelligent, ingenious,and thoroughly human. With our surroundings and bringing up, drawingas we do upon the entire world for our daily wants,we can have no conception of the earlier condition ofthis people and their almost inconceivable destitution VOL. I.—31
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