Word: eskimoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...belief that Alaska is a land of ice and snow, people solely by a few Eskimo tribes is quite incorrect. Many districts are similar to the Eastern part of the United States and compare very favorably in the matter of climate. Moreover, it is a region full of scenic beauties whose variety is probably not surpassed in any other single part of the earth...
...Ottawa, Anthropologist Diamond Jenness of the Victoria Memorial Museum returned from Point Prince of Wales, Alaska (nearest to^ Asia), with Eskimo relics obtained after four months' excavating. Four distinct periods >were traceable, the next-to-latest antedating the fights between Eskimos and Norsemen in 982 A. D, in eastern North America...
...told Dr. Isaiah Bowman, director of the American Geographical Society in New York. For a year and more the secret has been leaking out among explorers that Professor Ross G. Marvin of Cornell, one of Admiral Peary's most trusted Arctic lieutenants, was murdered by the Eskimo Kudlooktoo...
They read that Eskimo Kudlooktoo and his friend Eskimo Inukitsoq (nicknamed "Harrigan") were returning on April 10, 1909 with Professor Marvin from an expedition supporting Peary's dash for the Pole. According to Kudlooktoo, Marvin suddenly "sordlo ilisimajungnaersimasok" ["was like a sane man who for the moment was without the use of his faculties"]. Marvin, Kudlooktoo alleges, ordered Inukitsoq to get off the dog sledge, and proposed to leave him on the ice to die without food-all for no apparent reason. Kudlooktoo thereupon shot Marvin with a rifle, to save Inukitsoq, and the two Eskimos returned to Peary...
...Eskimo in question seemed fascinated by this song and in time learned those three words and practiced them with so much assiduity that he was ultimately able to sing them in a manner not wholly uncouth...