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and finally throwing and hitting the object with the harpoon,
which itself is implied by each of them.
VARIOUS WORDS RELATING TO ARCTIC NATURE.
The seabirds, as already mentioned, although contributing largely
to animate certain parts of the arctic regions during the summer,
can not with safety be counted with the objects for which the
arctic settlers had to form new names. Certainly however some
of them may have got their names in this way. In the appended
tables no selection of this kind has been tried; they contain:
the species usually grouped under the common term of geese
and ducks, and a series of others from the genera Colymbus,
Larus, Pelecanus, Procellaria, Uria, comprising all those that
have value in the domestic economy of the Greenlanders and
showing a striking resemblance of names between Greenland
and the extreme west. The names of fish are but few in the
western vocabularies and therefore also but poorly represented
in our tables, while at the same time we here observe a
somewhat greater difference too. Of course in the present
investigation there is only talk of saltwater fish, and these appear to
be of much less importance to the Western Eskimo than to
the Labradorians and Greenlanders; on the other hand salmon
constitute one of the staple articles of food of the inhabitants
of Alaska. However one well known name of a saltwater fish
useful to the northern Greenlanders, the eqaluvaq, according to
Jacobsen is met with here in the Extreme West, where its take
has been rich enough to give the month July its name, and on
the Asiatic side of Bering-Strait we find named the ûvaq which
on account of its widely spread occurrence in the course of
ages has saved many natives of Greenland from starvation.
As for the rest, in referring to our said tables, we will
only call attention to some names in the domain of physical
geography, as relating to the ocean, saltwater, and the tides,
all of which are identical in the east and the west. One word,
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