Word: eskimo
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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From Banks Island on they were never out of sight of wolves. They crossed the ice of McClure Strait to Melville Island. Wolves! They saw tracks of an Eskimo sledge going northwest toward Prince Patrick Island. Tracks indicated that 16 or 18 dogs were pulling the sledge, six or eight people accompanying them. This sight was first reward for the two hard-ridden explorers. They thus proved what the Canadian Government had contended was unlikely-that Eskimos never passed north of Banks Island. The pleased pair now bore eastward toward Winter Harbor to see what might lie there. Near Winter...
...dogs for two days. But the main trouble was water. If we hadn't let our beards grow, we would have been dead men. That is the way we got water-just sucked the icicles we broke off our beards. I learned that trick from an Eskimo on Banks Island...
...motored schooner Morrissey bore them through Davis Strait, past Kraulshafen, Greenland, where Dr. Belknap sent two assistants ashore; across Baffin Bay, across Melville Bay. Atop Cape York the jaunters found plenty of rocks but little labor to haul cement and scaffolding up the heights from the Morrissey. Seeking Eskimo helpers, the party went down the hill and over to Thule. a nearby village where lives Hans Nielsen, Danish Governor of the region...
...heard with alarm that A. & P. is introducing a line of ice cream in about 75% of its New York and Philadelphia stores as an experiment. The ice cream will be sold as A. & P's own brand under the name Yukon Club. In addition several novelties made by Eskimo Pie Corp. (controlled by U. S. Foil Corp.) will be handled. The price will be 20¢ a pint against a current competitive price of around 30?...
...return from the whaling trip Traveler Welzl was disembarked, at his own request, on the barren island of New Siberia. He discovered a cave abandoned by Eskimos, dug himself in before the polar storms broke. The winter night descended, the cold stiffened the tossing waves flat. High winter tides exploded the whole ocean's frozen surface into the air, with thunderclaps, bellows, sea-qiiaking crashes. At those sounds many a polar settler has burst out of his cave, run yelling along the shore waving his arms, insane. Traveler Welzl never stirred outside his cave, where the temperature touched 86° below...