The New North by Agnes Deans Cameron
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MORALIZING UNDER THE MIDNIGHT SUN The Midnight Sun--Our friend the heathen--"We want to go to hell"--Catching fish by prayer--The Eskimo and the Flood--Pink tea at the Pole--Always a balance in the Eskimo Bank--Marriage for better and not for worse--Christmas carols even here CHAPTER XV MAINLY CONCERNING FOOD Jurisprudence on ice--The generous Innuit--Emmie-ray, the Delineator pattern--Weak races are pressed south--Roxi, a re-incarnation of Sir Philip Sidney--Blubbery bon vivants--Eskimo knew the Elephant--We write the last chapter of the story of McClure, the navigator--Cannibalism at the Circle CHAPTER XVI THE TALE OF A WHALE Circumpolar Bowhead makes his last stand--Whales here and elsewhere--The Yankee peddler at Canada's back-door--Thirteen and a half million in whale values--Wind-swept Herschel, the Isle of Whales--One wife for a thousand years--Baleen, Spermaceti, and Ambergris--Save the Whale CHAPTER XVII SOUTH FROM THE ARCTIC TO CHIPEWYAN |
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