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Eskimo
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Yes, you are Eskimo," he had said. "And never forget it. We live as no other people can, for we truly understand the earth.
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― Julie of the Wolves
― Julie of the Wolves
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Apropos of Eskimo, I once heard a missionary describe the extraordinary difficulty he had found in translating the Bible into Eskimo. It was useless to talk of corn or wine to a people who did not know even what they meant, so he had to use equivalents within their powers of comprehension. Thus in the Eskimo version of the Scriptures the miracle of Cana of Galilee is described as turning the water into blubber; the 8th verse of the 5th chapter of the First Epistle of St. Peter ran: ‘Your adversa
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― The Days Before Yesterday
― The Days Before Yesterday
