San Juan Record | 1931-05-21 | Page 3 | World Awaiting Volume of Poetry by Eskimos

worl world awaiting volume of poetry by eskimos knud the arctic explorer has sprung a surprise upon the world lie ile has celebrated ills return to civilization after ninny years of wandering in the wilds by publishing a volume of poems by eskimos it will be interesting to see the poems in english we may be sure Bas mussen has presented it them I 1 ern worthily in print for with ills his E european iro education he has the advantage advantage of being halt half an eskimo and so thoroughly understands ills his au subject abject it seems seema natural for primitive people to talk of wild cletu picturesque aesque poetry unrhymed but full ot of beauty and imagination such as we see fixed for all time in the musical r names w which bich the red lied indians indiana gave conre lver t to rivers s and lakes and mountains in their native land it will be remembered by some that scholars have declared the eskimo language contains only about two hundred words which should add greatly to the labors of the poets