And it does their sensibility no little credit, without flattering ourselves, that when they saw the various articles of our European manufacture, they could not help expressing their surprise, by a mixture of joy and concern, that seemed to apply the case as a lesson of humility to themselves; and, on all occasions, they appeared deeply impressed with a consciousness of their own inferiority; a behaviour which equally exempts their national character from the preposterous pride of the more polished Japanese, and of the ruder Greenlander.
"A General History and Collection of Voyages and Travels, Volume 16"
Robert Kerr
Would the Greenlander paint a Negro, a Dane, a Greek, in his mind's eye, without ever having seen one?
"The Campaner Thal and Other Writings"
Jean Paul Friedrich Richter
This animal is the constant prey of the Greenlander, and furnishes him with all he wants.
"The History of Sandford and Merton"
Thomas Day