Word: lamps
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Dates: during 1900-1900
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...Peabody Museum has received an old stone lamp as a gift from the Brown Expedition which visited Labrador last summer in charge of Professor Delabarre of Brown University. The lamp is a very old one, believed to have been used by the Eskimos in public ceremonies and games, and it is said that there are only two such in Labrador...
...practical and strong legislation. In thus summing up the composition and policies of the two parties, he says in his closing paragraph, "A citizen . . . will support the strong government party when he must, the free government party when he dares. . . . For there be two Jinn, two slaves of the lamp, that serve the Republic. One, the nimbler and the more intelligent, is best employed in the care of its material interests, its bodily welfare. The other, a turbulent, huge, and mighty demon, guards with ferocious jealousy the two-fold liberty which is its soul...