Word: eskimoes
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Eskimo sailor had deserted in mid-Arctic, taking a gun and scoop shovel. Signal lights were left out for him and after several days mushing in the icepack he returned, sadder, wiser...
...Commander MacMillan and his fellow polar pilgrims (TIME, June 22 et seq.) last week dropped anchor at their boatbase, Etah, Greenland, unloaded their three Navy seaplanes from the stout ship Peary, and set about clearing and leveling the one steep little beach their harbor offered for a takeoff. Five Eskimo families were found in the "village," the men of which assisted in the arduous task of building skidways and tumbling large rocks aside...
Under the cliffs of Disko, near God-haven, an Eskimo kyak (canoe) manned by men in yellow oilskins hailed the pitching Bowdoin in some strange and unintelligible language. As the range shortened, it was perceived that the men spoke English, that they were Mac-Millan's companion-explorers from the Peary, which had preceded the Bowdoin to Disko and lay at anchor around a point...
...would establish an air base between Etah, Greenland (the expedition's intended boat base) and Cape Columbia, Grant Land (intended take-off for flights seeking the Pole and fabulous Crocker Land). Here gasoline, food, a radio-operator, smoke-bombs, an Eskimo and dog (for forced retreat), would be left...
...shorter wave lengths will pierce the hitherto impenetrable belt of static between the latitudes of 55° and 75°. The Radio Broadcasters' League hopes to be able to transmit a running account of the expedition's adventures by stepping up its messages at a Chicago station. Eskimo folk songs are also part of the tentative program...