Esquimau
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Esquimaux,
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Esquimau
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The natives of the interior are of two races, the Indian and the Esquimau.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck
And it was not till both parties had recourse to the language of signs that Nansen was able to ascertain that they belonged to an Esquimau encampment to the north of Puisortok.
From Fridtjof Nansen A book for the young by Jacob B. Bull
The word Samoyedes signifies "swamp-dwellers," and Esquimau means "eater of raw flesh."
From Due North or Glimpses of Scandinavia and Russia by Maturin Murray Ballou
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
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 stepped out on to that stage like I was the Great Esquimaux Curlew.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
“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
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
You stretch your neck up like the Great Esquimaux Curlew.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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