Tales and Traditions of the Eskimo - Alternative Religions ...

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the south . . they (clouds ?) shift and change. . . Behold how yonder south . . they tend to beautify each
other, . . while from the seaside it (the mountain-top) is enveloped . . in sheets still changing, . . from the
seaside enveloped, . . to mutual embellishment.
ANOTHER SONG FROM ARSUT.
Towards the south I ever turn my gaze, . . for at the point of Isua land, . . for near the strand of Isua, . .
yonder from the south he will appear; . . that way he certainly will come. . . Korsarak is sure to clear the
point, . . no doubt Korsarak will be equal to it (in his kayak). . . But if still he did not happen to come, . .
not until the season of the halibuts, . . not before the halibut-fishing begins, . . not until the men are
hauling up the halibuts.
These latter songs, of course, like the first, have different interjectional burdens added to the strophes,
here only separated by dotted lines.
Lastly, it must be noticed that though the present Greenlanders appear to have a pretty fair talent for
drawing and writing, scarcely any traces of the arts of drawing and sculpture belonging to earlier times
remain, with the exception of a few small images cut out in wood or bone, which have probably served
children as playthings. The western Eskimo, on the other hand, displayed great skill in carving bone
ornaments principally on their weapons and tools.
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