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Splendid Displays of the Aurora—Arrival of Captain Parker in the "True-love"—Visit to his Ship—Nikujar the Pilot—First Interview with the Innuits Ebierbing and Tookoolito—Their previous Visit to England and Presentation to Royalty—Snow-storm—A natural Causeway—Fluctuations of the Compass Needle—Tookoolito at Work—She tries to Educate her People—Her Power to do Good—Advantages of a Mission Colony—"Carl Petersen," McClintock's Interpreter—Tookoolito rebuking Swearers |
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Visit to Esquimaux Village—First Specimen of domestic Life among the Innuits—Female Tongues good Cleaners—The Angeko's Power—Mysteries of Innuit Worship—Choice of Wives—Curious Guide Poles to Travellers—Charley's Independence of Angeko—Ship beset in the Ice—Sudden Movements of the Ice—Frozen in—A Bear-hunt—Visit the Tupic of Ebierbing—Scarcity of Innuit Food and Fuel—The Esquimaux Lamp—Patience and Perseverance of an Innuit Hunter—An Igloo |
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Remarkable Echo—Visit of "Sampson"—Innuit mode of Washing the Face—"Bridge of Sighs"—Mothers nursing their Children—Serviceable Hoods—Tails of Innuit Dresses—Extraordinarily mild Weather—Kelp used for Food—Christmas and New Year's Day—Sick Nukertou—Cruel Abandonment—Innuit Superstitions—Author's lonely Watch—Kooperarchu's Death—Innuit Idea of a Future State |
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Rough Travelling overland—High Cliffs—Descent of the Sledge on to the frozen Sea—Camp on the Ice—First Night in an Igloo—Dangerous Travelling—Second Night on the Ice—An icy Beard—Hair-cutting—Fearful Peril—Deep Snow—Treacherous Footing—Arrive at Rogers's Island—Great Thirst—Innuit Welcome—A Cup of Water—Night's Rest-Disappearance of the Ice—Remarkable Preservation—Frostbiies—A serviceable pocket Mirror—Whale-skin eaten as food—Innuit Seal-hunting—Starving Condition of the Party. |
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