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 . ideas of astronomy are definite, thoughnecessarily limited. They recognise the Great Dip-per as a herd of reindeer; the three triangular starsof Cassiopeia are the three stones supporting a celestialstone lamp; the Pleiades are a t
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 . ideas of astronomy are definite, thoughnecessarily limited. They recognise the Great Dip-per as a herd of reindeer; the three triangular starsof Cassiopeia are the three stones supporting a celestialstone lamp; the Pleiades are a team of dogs inpursuit of a bear ; the three glittering brilliants of thebelt of Orion are the steps cut by some celestialEskimo in a steep snow-bank to enable him to climbto the top ; Gemini are two stones in the entrance to ARM PULL. an igloo ; Arcturus and Aldebaran are personifica-tions ; and the moon and sun are a maiden and herpursuing lover. These Eskimos estimate time bythe movements of the stars, as well as by the positionof the sun, and yet, less observant than were the Arabshepherds, they have not noticed that one star is thecentre about which all the others move, nor have theyset apart the planets, which to them are simply largestars. Probably this is due to the fact that the move-ments of stars can be observed during only threemonths of the
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