Esquimau
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Esquimaux,
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Esquimau
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The best water-proof footwear is the Esquimau mukluk, not easily obtainable in the interior of Alaska, but the mukluk is an inconvenient footwear to put snow-shoes on.
From Ten Thousand Miles with a Dog Sled A Narrative of Winter Travel in Interior Alaska by Hudson Stuck
He was of the Esquimau breed, and bore some resemblance to the Newfoundland, but was rather shorter in the legs, longer in the body, and more powerfully made.
From Ungava by R. M. (Robert Michael) Ballantyne
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
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
At six the same evening our travellers followed in the same direction, and in a short time reached the Esquimau encampment at Cape Bille.
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
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
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
You stretch your neck up like the Great Esquimaux Curlew.
From "Okay for Now" by Gary D. Schmidt
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