DCHP-2
Eskimo Indian Obs. DCHP-1 (pre-1967)
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a member of a large group of North American aborigines inhabiting the Arctic and northern coastal areas from Greenland to Siberia.
See also: Eskimo (def. 1)
- 1742 (1744) What was still as unpardonable as neglecting the Discovery, was his putting the two Northern Indians ashore on Marble Island against their Inclinations . . . in a very bad Boat he got at Churchill, which they did not know how to manage, in an Island 3 Leagues from their supposed Way, the Eskimay Indians, their Enemies, living upon that Coast.
- 1848 During one of my national expeditions down the St. Lawrence, I chanced to be wind-bound for a couple of days at the mouth of a river on the north shore, where I found a small encampment of Esquimaux Indians.
- 1742 (1744) What was still as unpardonable as neglecting the Discovery, was his putting the two Northern Indians ashore on Marble Island against their Inclinations . . . in a very bad Boat he got at Churchill, which they did not know how to manage, in an Island 3 Leagues from their supposed Way, the Eskimay Indians, their Enemies, living upon that Coast.