Show REGULAR PERIODS OF FAMINE Ivery vry Seven ven Years Yesra Starvation Threatens Threat ens on Indiana Indians and Eskimos In the Canadian North Every seven years starvation stalks III Ia the Northland The rabbits rabbits rab lab bits bUrl dl dtp die And just juet as surely tun as the they die so 10 do the Eskimo and the Indian of northern Canada It was waft In one of these fatal years that Alanson Skinner curator of the Milwaukee museum entered tho the Hudson Hud Bud son Ion Bay Boy country on an exploration trip for tor the American Museum of It Natural History the Milwaukee Journal re ye ports Arriving at Moose Factory he be waa was surprised at lit the stories bo ho heard beard Every hunter and every eTory trapper from the wilds brought them back The natives were dying by hundreds literally starving to death It was a case of the- the survival of the tho fittest 81 Should a man turn his Ills back upon even his best beat fri fri-cind fr nd for a moment he was wu apt to be killed Cannibalism was rife Skinner saw Baw many gruesome sights as ns he pushed on from Moose Factory to Rupert's the last outpost At one ono onetime onetime time he sat down to eat beside be a French trapper who arrived at Ru Ru- He noticed that the man watched him with a strange light In hi his biB eyes He lIe left the table but on looking hack back found the mans roans eyes were wore still aUlI fastened upon him What alls ails that fellow he he- hein bein inquired in- in inquired inquired in in- of ot an Indian He eat human flesh once of cousin Frenchman and Indian guide the native native na na- na- na tive explained Now he crazy Must Most have baT more all time Skinner was mighty might glad giad that he be had not enc encountered untere the crazed Fr Frenchman alone on the trail trall he said |