l 1886.] 
It is interesting to note in this connection that one of the little 
ivory images brought home by our party from Point Barrow rep- 
resents a bear with zez legs, said to have been seen once at Point 
Barrow, and evidently a blood relation of the many-legged 4iliv- 
4 fak of the Greenland stories. 
4 Another fabulous beast was the ugruna. “ There are none now 
on the land. It has gone away, only the bones [remain].” This 
name appears to be applied to an extinct species of ox or buffalo, 
whose bones they sometimes see in the interior, probably along 
the banks of the rivers. We procured several teeth of the 
ugruna which had been worn as amulets. As in Labrador this 
name is also applied satirically to the smallest mammal known to 
the Eskimos, a little shrewmouse. 
As elsewhere on the American continent, the Red Indian, who 
in Greenland, like the wolf, has become a fabulous being, dwell- 
ing in the mysterious inland country, is called by the contemptu- 
ous name, “son of a zz” —Itkidling, the Ingalik or “ Ingaleet” 
of Norton sound, which is plainly the same word as the erkilek 
of the Greenland traditions. . 
Outside of the strict field of legendary history or tradition, th 
Teligious ideas and superstitious observances of these people, as 
far as we had the good fortune to observe them, show a great 
resemblance to those of the Greenlanders before their conversion 
to Christianity. So strong is the resemblance in this and in other 
respects that I feel confident that an intelligent observer who 
should devote himself to the collection of the traditions of the 
Eskimos of Point Barrow, as Dr. Rink has so ably done for the 
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HISTORY OF CELERY. 
ing of Cultivation so as to embrace selection and the cross-fertili- 
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Greenlanders, would find here the greater part of the older tra- | 
BY E. LEWIS STURTEVANT, M.D. ne 
r we consider cultivation as embracing only the removal of a 
; Plant to fertile soil and its protection from injury from ċrowd- 
_ ing, the only marked effect of the continuance upon a plant — 
_ ““Fough itself and its offspring seems to be embraced in the one _ 
Word expansion, z. e., increase of size. If we enlarge the mean- 4 
Dpr of the flowers which yield seed for. future use, the subject y - 
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