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|Text=<p>Kane, Elisah Kent, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55</span>, volume 2 [Philadelphia, Childs and Peterson]. The author, observing a native village, watches as "children, each one armed with the curved rib of some big amphibian, are playing bat and ball among the drifts." Block notes that the accompanying engraving playing with long, curved bones as bats.</p> | |Text=<p>Kane, Elisah Kent, <span style="text-decoration: underline;">Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55</span>, volume 2 [Philadelphia, Childs and Peterson]. The author, observing a native village, watches as "children, each one armed with the curved rib of some big amphibian, are playing bat and ball among the drifts." Block notes that the accompanying engraving playing with long, curved bones as bats.</p> | ||
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| Text | Kane, Elisah Kent, Arctic Explorations: the Second Grinnell Expedition in Search of Sir John Franklin, 1853, '54, '55, volume 2 [Philadelphia, Childs and Peterson]. The author, observing a native village, watches as "children, each one armed with the curved rib of some big amphibian, are playing bat and ball among the drifts." Block notes that the accompanying engraving playing with long, curved bones as bats. |
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