Re: [Paddlewise] Arctic Amazons...

From: Joe Pylka <pylka_at_castle.net>
Date: Fri, 8 Jun 2001 14:07:11 -0400
>>>>>While the Inuit and Aleuts cursed mightily and frequently (aided by
their
versatile cursing paddles) their very lives depended upon being able to fend
off Arctic Amazons and witches intent upon stealing their masculinity or
just plain killing them for a quick meal. Arctic Amazons have a fondness for
human flesh which is why you find so few bones buried in the north. After a
hearty meal of Inuit hunter the Amazons would cast the bones into the ocean
where
they would freeze and become part of the great arctic ice pack eventually to
be redistributed in southern climes when the ice pack melted much to the
consternation of South American anthropologists.<<<<<<

    Reminds me of a book by George Chapelle years ago (He was the author of
many thrilling adventure books in the '30s with titles such as "Through the
Alimentary Canal with Gun and Camera").  There was one whose name escapes me
narrated by a scholarly gentleman who traveled through the Arctic.
    He might have been an ancestor of Dr. Inverbon; certainly wrote like
one...  He had a traveling companion on his explorations up there; a
striking eskimo woman named "Snak".

Joe P.




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