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Eskimoland
DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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n.
the Arctic regions inhabited by Eskimos.
Quotations
1853
Indeed, a rough estimate of merely the coast of Eskimo-land--for of the interior we are ignorant, would give no more than three souls for every two square miles, or a total number of 2500.
1916
Introduced to a young explorer from Eskimoland he at once heckled him for positive, reliable, and strictly ethnological information concerning the Eskimos. . . .
1964
My standing with the Gods of the ethereal regions surrounding Eskimo-land may have been on a sound footing but my position with the natives themselves was none too firmly established.