1768  A Person aboard had bought a Pair of Eskemaux Boots. . . .
1852  The Eskimo boots are also peculiar to the nation, being made of seal-skin so closely sewed as to be water-tight, and coming up to the hips like those used by fishermen in our own land.
1942  When you walk in a pair of Eskimo boots, you must remember that the ridges of rocky hills are too sharp for a boot to endure many miles without coming to pieces.