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It is thus among the Soudanese, as also, in an altogether different part of the world, among the Eskimo Innuit and Koniags. The same custom is also found in Australia, where, however other postures are also adopted. In Europe the quadrupedal posture would seem to prevail among some of the South Slavs, notably the Dalmatians.
The harbor of Mobile is shaped like a rude Innuit boot. At the top, Tensaw and Mobile Rivers, in their deltas, make, respectively, two and three looplike bands, like the straps. The toe is Bonsecour Bay, pointing east. The heel rests on Dauphin Island, while the main channel flows into the hollow of the foot between Fort Morgan and Dauphin Island.
As they sailed upwards, they were hailed by the natives in their kaiaks, with "Innuit, Innuit! man, man;" and when they hoisted their colours there was a general cry of "Kablunat, Kablunat! Europeans! Europeans!" About one P.M. they cast anchor close to an encampment, containing fourteen families, some from a distant district called Rivektok.
Then the ill wind blew upon them and brought disaster as they came to the camp on the island; therefore it seemed quite certain that not the kablunok but some of the innuit in the camp had offended the great Torngak, and amongst themselves they must look for the cause of their misfortune.
It remains now to deal with two races whose physical characters are of considerable importance in connection with certain points which will be dealt with in subsequent pages, I mean the Lapps and the Innuit or Eskimo. The average male stature is five feet, a figure which corresponds closely with that obtained by Mantegazza and quoted by Topinard.
Big feast, big feed, tell heap big stories, big dance. Oh, heap big time. Innuit go, plenty Ingalik go. Me got pony, too. Buy um from Ingalik man." "According to his story he seems to be the big noise up here," muttered Ned Rector. "He has a pony. That is one point in his favor," said Tad. "Wait till you see it before you call it a pony," advised Stacy. "Me got gun, too. Me shoot. Bang!"
"But," continued the seaman, with much earnestness, "having said that I am grateful, I will not say more about the Innuit just now. I will only tell you, in few words, some things about my own country which will interest you. I have been asked if we have big villages. Yes, my friends, we have very big villages so big that I fear you will find it difficult to understand what I say."
As this was utterly incomprehensible to the Eskimo, he resumed his bit of blubber without saying a word. After a brief silence, he looked at the Kablunet again, and said "Have they houses in your land?" "Houses? O yes; plenty of 'em made of stone." "Like the summer-houses of the Innuit, I suppose?" said Angut. "Are they as big?"
Big Innuit feast." "When?" "Pretty quick. Every year big feast down to Ikogimeut when Yukon ice get hard, so man go safe with dog-team." "Do many people go?" "All Innuit go, plenty Ingalik go." "How far do they come?" "All over; come from Koserefsky, come from Anvik sometime Nulato." "Why, Nulato's an awful distance from Ikogimeut."
The Innuit or Eskimo were called by the original Norse explorers "Skraelingjar," or dwarfs, a name now converted by the Innuit into "karalit," which is the nearest approach that they are able to make phonetically to the former term. They are certainly, on the average, a people of less than middle stature, yet they can in no sense be described as Pigmies.
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