Esquimau
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Esquimaux,
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Esquimau
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The Greenland ports were visited, where a 255 moderate amount of fur clothing and fifty Esquimau dogs were purchased.
From Explorers and Travellers by Adolphus W. Greely
But although an Esquimau, he exhibited several physical peculiarities not commonly supposed to belong to that people.
From Ungava by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
Unalaklík is a thriving Esquimau community, noted for its native schooner building and its successful seal hunters and fishermen.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck
Our Indian guide had been sent back to Fort Yukon from Coldfoot, and here we engaged a young Esquimau with his dog team and sled, to go across to Kotzebue Sound with us.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck
Nansen, indeed, tried to talk to them in Esquimau from a conversation book in that tongue he had with him, but it was perfectly useless.
From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Jacob B. Bull
He has done much ethnological study among the Labrador Esquimaux, has taught Anthropology at Bowdoin.
From Time Magazine Archive
“I mean such as Malay proas, catamarans, Arab dhows, Chinese sanpans, Japanese pilot boats, Turkish caiques, Esquimaux kiacks, Alaskan war canoes, the hooded boats of the Swiss Lakes, and so on.”
From "The Devil in the White City" by Erik Larson
The Great Esquimaux Curlew looked like he was just coming onstage, his body leaning forward, his neck stretched out, his bill stuck up in the air like he was about to sing or something.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
There were viewing cards of the Great Sphinx of Egypt, the Fabulous White City of Chicago, the Fascinating Lives of the Esquimaux.
From "The Evolution of Calpurnia Tate" by Jacqueline Kelly
“The Great Esquimaux Curlew. An actor if ever there was one.”
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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