Word: esquimaux
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Maine preparatory school, a classics instructor near Philadelphia and a physical director at Worcester (Mass.) Academy. In 1908, he had his chance and went with Peary on the first expedition ever to come to "the top of the world." He has done much ethnological study among the Labrador Esquimaux, has taught Anthropology at Bowdoin. In 1920, he commanded his own expedition to Baffin Land, his most important discovery being the presence of vast coal beds in the far north. It was partly because of such deposits, partly because of the possible commercial value of airplane depots, that MacMillan, last week...
During the winter of 1924 the explorer's ship was icebound and covered with snow. The party built three snow-houses on top of the ship and to these Esquimaux visited all during the winter to see the white man's moving picture, to hear the white man's radio and victrola, and to eat the white man's food...
...went on a long trip in search of the famous, musk ox which inhabit the Polar region and feed on the frozen vegetation which grows in the bare spots of this country. He showed the first moving pictures ever taken of these rare animals, encircled by the Captain's Esquimaux dogs which played hide and seek with them, some times however getting caught on the horns. "I've always wanted to ride a musk-ox," said the speaker, "and I found out what it would be like last spring. We caught a young one and tied a rope around...
...trip north Captain MacMillan took with him a tablet given by the National Geographic Society to commemorate the death of several scientists far north in Greenland on Cape Sabine in 1887. This he left, with instructions to the Esquimaux never to touch...
Captain MacMillan early in the spring of 1924 made a long trip over the snow and icefields southward from the spot where his ship was frozen in, to the first Esquimaux village, the settlement of humans which is the nearest in the world to the North Pole. There he found the children coasting down the hills, exactly, he said, like children elsewhere. The Esquimaux were very clever with their hands, and also with their feet. In illustration of this fact the speaker showed pictures of Esquimaux ladies holding their sewing in their toes. These Polar inhabitants had last been visited...