PAINTINGS OF GREENLAND ESKIMO 



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Copijrujht i:iiis },ij Frank Wilbert .S<«A-fs 



SCENE AT CAPE YORK A SUMMER HOME OF THE ESKIMO 



The southern panel of the West ^\'all. 



200 feet high, but the ice shelves out beneath the water, wliere tl;e buoy- 

 ancy of the sea breaks off parts which float away as icebergs. This 

 birth of icebergs at the water's edge of a gUicier often causes waves 

 thirty or forty feet in height, miles in extent, and attended by volleys of 

 thunderous reports that are terrifying in the ears of the Eskimo. Each 

 of these glaciers is an arm of the inland ice cap of Greenland, a un'ghty 

 sheet submerging mountains and valleys to a (le])th of ."),()()() Feet or 

 more. 



