Democratic Sentinel, Volume 20, Number 35, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 September 1896 — PILGRIMS FROM LABRADOR. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

PILGRIMS FROM LABRADOR.

Come for the World's 'Fair, Now on the Return Trip, „ Apili and his wife, Helene, whose pictures acconipaiiy*this story, tailed from Brooklyn a few du vs ago for their home, near Davis Inlet, Labrador, which they

left four years ago to form a parr of the anthropological exhibit at. thp World’s.. Fair, where they were domiciled ip ilio Eskimo village. They have had varying fortune since tiie Chiciigb show closed They traveled a piirt'<Wtlie time with

Barnum’s circus at a salary, gs it is salfr. pf $150,a week, yef„thcy started fog- home with nothing except sonte articles of clothing, a tew- ntensils that they have accumulated, some trinkets that they hav?

picked up in their journey ings. mid the necessary outfit which thoughtful friend* in New York provided to enable Apili to go hunting with when he arrives in Labrador. Their passage was prepaid, and their safe conduct arranged' for not only during the voyage to St. John's, but during their stay there, as well as on the'Sec ond part of their journey, front there to their home. A dollar was all it was deemed safe to entrust them with in cash, and the chalices are perhaps even that they will carry that with them to their destination, or part with it to the first nimble-witted talker with whom they meet. For the Eskimo who have come here do not seem to acquire cunning in their dealings with the whites, even after being swindled many times. The little girl pictured with Apili and' Helene is their grandchild, and she goes back with them as a remindet of the World's Fair, where she was born, and of Mrs. Potter Palmer, after whom she was named Nancy Helene Columbia Palmer. She appears to be a half-breed, and her father is supposed to bo in the Labrador settlement, where Apili lives.

APILI, WIFE AND GRANDDAUGHTER.