sleep †

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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in Indian and Eskimo parlance, a day, that is the time between one time of sleeping and the next; the distance travelled in this lapse of time.

Quotations

1743

[How many nights have you been a comming (or how many nights did you sleep.)]

1896

The one "sleep" did not bring us up to the caribou, but it took us north to the lodge of another Indian who had been more fortunate than we.

1938

I was warned to take more "gas" or we would never get back by motor; the lake was "seven sleeps long."

1951

". . . attempt the journey of seven or eight sleeps for a visit, a sleep meaning one day's travel and one night's rest on the trail."