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Eskimo
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Apropos of Eskimo, I once heard a missionary describe the extraordinary difficulty he had found in translating the Bible into Eskimo. It was useless to talk of corn or wine to a people who did not know even what they meant, so he had to use equivalents within their powers of comprehension. Thus in the Eskimo version of the Scriptures the miracle of Cana of Galilee is described as turning the water into blubber; the 8th verse of the 5th chapter of the First Epistle of St. Peter ran: ‘Your adversa
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― The Days Before Yesterday
― The Days Before Yesterday
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Hvad enten man i mange punkter deler mit syn eller ikke, om jeg end ikke finder alt bestaaende saare godt, og selv om jeg skulde vise den svaghed at føle sorg over et synkende folk, som kanske ikke staar til at redde, da det allerede er stukket af vor civilisations giftige braad, saa trøster jeg mig med, at det ikke kan forværre dette folks kaar, og haaber, man vil opfatte mine bemerkninger i samme aand, som de er skrevne.
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― Eskimoliv
― Eskimoliv
