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The North Pole

CHAPTER VII
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This appears to remove the ban.
Eskimos are children in their grief, as in their pleasure; they weep for a dead friend a few days, then they forget.

Even a mother who has been inconsolable at the death of her baby soon laughs again and thinks of other things.
In a country where the stars are visible for so many weeks at a time it is not strange perhaps that they receive much attention from the natives.

The Eskimos are, within barbaric limits, astronomers.

The principal constellations visible in northern latitudes are well known to them and they have given them their own names and descriptions.

In the Great Dipper they see a herd of celestial reindeer.


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