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The knife

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Fictional account of the introduction of the white man's implement into a polar Eskimo community in the Thule region of Greenland. Based on a narrative of Meksak, grandfather of Peter Freuchen's Eskimo wife, and on the legend of Saviksu, the meteoritic iron stones at Cape York brought away by Peary in 1897.

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