Evening Republican, Volume 14, Number 233, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 30 September 1910 — Eskimos Have Girl in Moon. [ARTICLE]

Eskimos Have Girl in Moon.

New York.—Professor Wilhelm Verbeck, an ethnologist of Indianapolis, who has been studying the folklore of the Eskimo of Northern Labrador, bas returned from St John’s. N. fJ •with a notebook full of observations’ taken in the year he passed in. the Morth. Instead of having a man in the moon, Eskimos have a girl. One of ♦their young warriors, according to the 'legend, became angry with his sister, (■nd ran at her to box her ears. Finally she got to the edge of a precipice and he thought he had her trapped. But her momentum was so great that Instead of stumbling off the precipice ■he shot out into space. The brother mv her land in the middle of the ■nwn