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Short Sketches From Oldest America (Illustrated Edition)
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About Short Sketches From Oldest America
During many years spent within the Arctic Circle of NorthwesternAlaska, at Tig-a-ra (Point Hope Village), where I have lived at themission station of the Episcopal Church, acting as medical man andteacher, and, later on, in deacon’s orders, I have naturally becomeinterested in these ancient people, and have written the followingvolume of short stories simply to show the nature, traditions andlegends of the In-u-pash.[1] I have also introduced a few briefsketches, hoping to give a little insight into the simplicity of theseprimitive people who have been isolated from the outside worldfrom the most remote time. There has been no attempt made toexhaust the subject.JOHN B. DRIGGS, M.D.April, 1905.
