                                      "     "     86

  FISHING                                               "     "    114

  A GREENLAND DANCE                                     "     "    190

  A FIORD LANDSCAPE ON THE EAST COAST (AT TINGMIARMIUT) "     "    328

  NORTHERN LIGHTS--'THE DEAD AT PLAY'                   "     "    348


_WOODCUTS IN THE TEXT._
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  GREENLAND INDOOR DRESS (EAST COAST)--(1) Male Costume;
  (2) Female Costume                                                26

  BLADDER-DART                                                      34

  HARPOON                                                           36

  THE HEAD OF THE HARPOON                                           37

  LANCE                                                             39

  THROWING-STICK WITH BIRD-DART                                     40

  THE BIRD-DART THROWN                                              42

  THROWING-STICK WITH HARPOON                                       43

  KAIAK, SEEN FROM ABOVE                                            44

  KAIAK-FRAME                                                       44

  SECTION OF THE KAIAK                                              47

  PADDLE                                                            49

  HALF-JACKET                                                       50

  WHOLE-JACKET                                                      50

  ESKIMO VENUS AND APOLLO                                          199




ESKIMO LIFE




CHAPTER I

GREENLAND AND THE ESKIMO


Greenland is in a peculiar manner associated with Norway and with the
Norwegians. Our forefathers were the first Europeans who found their way
to its shores. In their open vessels the old Vikings made their daring
voyages, through tempests and drift-ice, to this distant land of snows,
settled there throughout several centuries, and added it to the domain
of the Norwegian crown.

After the memory of its existence 