Show Traditions of the Eskimos But speaking of traditions I might say that these people possess a great many of them f is however very difficult to induce an Eskimo to speak of such things or of his religious beliefs The only way of extracting such information informa-tion from an Eskimo is to make him your friend and then getting him away from his companions promise that you will not tell them what he may tell you and haying hay-ing done this to draw him step by step into the line of conversation you want to f g Uae of their traditions is about the flood and I think it is particularly interesting inter-esting as it is one of many similar legends leg-ends held by the savage tribes The Eskimos say that a very long time ago there was great rain which flooded the earth and destroyed all men except a few who constructed a large boat out of a number of small ones and used it as a means af escape After a while the poor creatures being exposed to the fury of the storm in their open boat began to be cold and uncomfortable so their chief standing up threw his spears and ornaments orna-ments into the waters and this was sufficient to pacify them and they subsided sub-sided They have also a romantic legend about the origin of the sun and moon Torunto orgn |