Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 287, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 December 1912 — ESKIMO THE TOPIC [ARTICLE]

ESKIMO THE TOPIC

Dr. Anderson of Stefansson Expedition Is in San Francisco. Talks of Men In Arctic Who Hunt With Crude Bow and Arrow, Fish Through the Ice, Kindle Fire in an Odd Way. San Francisco, Cal. —Corroborating in every detail the story of the discovery of the blond Eskimo tribes recently given the world'of science by Vilhajlmer Stefansson, his partner in arctic explorations, Dr. Rudolph Margin Anderson ot Forest City, lowa, arrived here recently on the whaler Belvederq after four and a half years in the frozen north. He was accompanied by Prof. E. Dekoven Leffingwell of Pasadena, Cal., who has passed three and a half years making observations in the vicinity of the Flaxman islands and surveying and mapping about 150 miles of the coast line. “It was over on the Cape Bexley territory, on the mainland and on Prince Albert sound, across and to the south of the Dolphin and Union straits, that Stefansson first got in touch with blond aborigines,” said Dr losT most of our dogs while at Cape Barry, Langton bay and Franklyn ! bay, where we had wintered. Stefansson and I parted company, he leaving with two Eskimos for the east, while I pukhed on to the Mackenzie delta for supplies. We met again at Langton bay in the autumn of 1910 and he told me of the queer tribe he had discovered. . “In December we started out and were thirty-one days crossing 300 miles of the; worst strip of land we ! ever encountered. We explored the little known Horton river and made

records and compass calculations. This is one of the largest rivers flowing into the Arctic. We were going through the barren grounds and putting in a supply of caribou for our dash for Coronation bay in the spring. “From Dease river to Dismal lake and to the Copper Mine river and Coronation bay was our course, the last 75 miles over the ice before we found these strange people. First we came on a deserted sndw village and finally an inhabited village with a population of forty. Many of the men had light mustaches. The people we discovered are extremely primitive, having no modern implements of any kind and no modern weapons. They hunt with a crude bow and arrow and

spear fish through holes in the Ice. They cook their food. In kindling a Are they strike two crystallized stones together.” Dr. Anderson brings back hundreds of specimens cf mammals, birds, fishes and minerals that will be divided between the dominion geological survey at Ottawa, Ont., and the American museum of Natural history in New York. He has thirty-five specimens of caribou.