Upper Yukon Native Customs and Folk-lore, Volume 56; Volumes 59-60Smithsonian institution, 1910 - 30 pages |
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ALEŠ HRDLIČKA Algonquian Amer ancient Antillia Atlantic average Bay of Fundy Beothuk Brazil breadth Cape cent century cephalic index cited coast cotton diabase early Egyptian Eric the Red Eskimo especially expedition exploration face facial feet Flateybook Grand Manan grapes Greenland Gudrid hand head height Helluland History Hóp Hopi Hrdlička Iceland Indians Island Kharga natives KHARGA OASIS KHARGA OASIS NATIVES Labrador Lake land later Leif length Markland Maximum measurements miles moose mountains Nansen narrative nasal index Newfoundland Norse Norsemen northern Nova Scotia observations ocean original Pachacamac perhaps Peru Photograph probably region relation River rocks saga sailed seems shore Skrellings skulls SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION SMITHSONIAN MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTIONS sodium specimens stature Table of frequencies temperature Thorfinn Karlsefni tion tribes U. S. National Museum Valley Vinland visited voyage wild Wineland wolverene writer
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Page 128 - It now seemed clear to Karlsefni and his people, that although the country thereabouts was attractive, their life would be one of constant dread and turmoil by reason of the [hostility of the] inhabitants of the country, so they forthwith prepared to leave, and determined to return to their own country.
Page 128 - Skrellings, clad in skin-doublets, lying asleep near the sea. There were vessels beside them, containing animal marrow, mixed with blood. Karlsefni and his company concluded that they must have been banished from their own land. They put them to death. They afterwards found a cape, upon which there was a great number of animals, and this cape looked as if it were one cake of dung, by reason of the animals which lay there at night.
Page 58 - Moreover he spoke of an island in that ocean discovered by many, which is called Wineland, for the reason that vines grow wild there, which yield the best of wine. Moreover, that grain unsown grows there abundantly is not a fabulous fancy, but from the accounts of the Danes we know to be a fact.
Page 128 - Karlsefni, and all his men, so that they could think of naught but flight, and of making their escape up along the river bank, for it seemed to them that the troop of the Skrellings was rushing towards them from every side, and they did not pause until they came to certain jutting crags, where they offered a stout resistance.
Page 124 - It would be very difficult to ascertain the character of this region without spending a winter in it; for, on arriving here in summer, everything is very agreeable, in consequence of the woods, fine country, and the many varieties of good fish which are found there.
Page 128 - They now returned to their dwellings, and bound up their wounds, and weighed carefully what throng of men that could have been, which had seemed to descend upon them from the land ; it now seemed to them, that there could have been but the one party, that which came from the boats, and that the other troop must have been an ocular delusion.
Page 183 - JW : Acadian geology. Fossil man. Geology and natural history of Nova Scotia. DAWSON, SE : The St. Lawrence, its basin and border lands. 1905. DEBES, LJ : Faroe and Faeroa referata. (Description of the islands and inhabitants of Faroe.) DE COSTA, BF : Arctic exploration. Amer. Geogr. Soc. Bull., 1880. The Pre-Columbian discovery of America, by the Northmen, illustrated by translations from the Icelandic Sagas.
Page 136 - Indian corn, which they raise in gardens," and again, " before reaching their cabins we entered a field planted with Indian corn." Whenever he mentions this plant or its grain, it is unequivocally as an attendant on human homes and the product of human labor. No doubt the Norsemen would have done likewise, if " Indian corn " were the " wheat " which they found; but there is not a word in the sagas to indicate any sign or product of agriculture past or present—even of the " pulse " which Verrazano...
Page 34 - Here was the General Don Diego de Vargas, who conquered for our holy faith, and for the Royal Crown, all of New Mexico, at his (own) expense. Year of 1692.