My Life With the Eskimo

Steffensen would go and try to impress the Inuit with technology but because they had this very elaborate mystical belief system things weren't impressive to him

he would bring up where I come from we can open a person up and do a surgery and they'd be like oh yeah we know a guy can pull your whole spine and skull out while you're sleeping and put a new one back in and he'd say check this gun out

I can shoot something 200 yards away oh yeah we know a guy who can take his bow and shoot it and the arrow will fly over the mountains and kill something on the other side of the mountains and he'd always be getting bent out of shape

and he'd always have this telescope that he could observe the craters on the moon and we know a guy that hunts up there

there was a dead whale on the beach that he writes about and it was like this dried out like a desiccated whale carcass on a beach and they were really hard up for food so they went and cut the tongue out of this whale and boil it, change the water boil it, change the water just to get the salt out so impregnated with salt and eventually eat it and later he hears they encounter some Inuit hunters and they explain that thing had been laying there seven years so he had a strong stomach seven years