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Show How Eskimos Live in Icy Greenland wards Interesting Facts About the Natives. Washington, D. C. How the Eskimos live in icy Greenland, one of the most forbidding of all inhabited areas, is related in the following bulletin from the National Geographic society, based on a radio dispatch from the MacMillan Arctic expedition: Aside from its mines of coal and cryolite, Greenland is as free of industry and manufacture as it is of agriculture, husbandry or forestry. k The rock border between Ice cap and sea offers no opportunity h for farming or herding and a tree produces little lumber. But there are thousands of suitable harbors to which a kayak or a small wooden boat can retreat from the storm. The Eskimo has been repulsed by a barren land which, however, welcomes him cordially when fish are piled on his dock or walrus or seal drag at his towline. It is natural therefore that the only industrial plant we saw In Greenland should be related to fishing. Across a narrow bight from the main town of Ilolstenborg is a small but modern factory for canning halibut. There girls, in bright bead collars, work for 40 cents a day, solder cans, weigh the firm white flesh or scrub sections of the big fish in chilly tubs of sea water. In the North, as elsewhere, civilization has been working its way with What has meant primitive peoples wealth to Gloucester has meant increasing want to the kayaker, and the Danes have sought to provide employment for those Greenlanders who, while developing tastes for Imported articles, are farming their once productive half acres less profitably than before. The halibut cannery at Ilolstenborg Is an attempt to enable a settlement to live through at a time when individual skill and initiative are on the wane. Sons of kayakers who would brave any storm, get seasick on the big halibut schooner and it is hard to find effl dent men at any price commensurate with possible return. Trapping White Whales. Greenland halibut is perfection In fish food and a sale is gradually being developed for canned halibut produced in a factory which answers a demand, not for food or profit, but for employment by those who would otherwise lack it. Sukkertoppen has become prosperous by running nets between islands and trapping white whales. Holstenborg depends on a big flat fish to keep bright boots on its women and fat cheeks on its babies. "The halibut is the king of those fish whose wandering eyes and shift ing body planes make them seem de formed when they are actually hlghlj developed for the life they lead. Al though the life history of the halibut Is still unknown, a study of these flat fish leads one to think that during growth one eyp migrates across the head and that the body axis shifts. Not only because of his shifty eye and turnable spine is the halibut in teresting, but he is also able to change the color of his skin to match that of the bottom near which he lies. In some mysterous way this ability to play chameleon Is connected with eye sight and a severing of the optic nerve robs the halibut of its protean ability to camouflage himself against the home he has chosen and the furniture amid which he moves. Only by keeping his eyes open can the halibut work out a color scheme of ids own. So commer lace-wor- two-inc- cial fisherman prevent the flesh from becoming discolored by using the as a blinder and layfishs down. him eyes ing When a schooner arrives in port with many of its cargo still alive, the bins are full of fish, all stacked with the white side up. As the huge fish are lifted to the wharf, the first operation is to cut off the head, which forms a considerable portion of the body, and tons of these are thrown into the harbor or given to the poor of the town. Just before night one sees pairs of trousered girls bringing home baskets of fish heads which- are split and hung from poles to keep them from the dogs and allow them to dry. These drying heads give flavor to the town and make its scent as vivid as are the local colors in which bright beads have so large a part. Rescue Ship Now a Pier. Out in the harbor Is the towering hulk of the Old Peru, a gallant ship which was once sent to the relief of Nansen but is now used as a floating pier. Like the primitive peoples of the North, this venerable vessel has a flat nose and high cheek bones so that it seems as though it could float broadside as easily as go ahead. An old sailor down in Maine described such a vessel by saying that if a bucket fell overboard under her bowsprit, she would bump it ahead of her for a week before she would get past it. This old vessel marks one stage in the Royal Danish Trading company. The shiny tin cans of the Holstenborg cannery, filled to the top with the firm flesh of the northern halibut, mark another stage in modern mans effort to adapt himself to changing surroundings, as the king of flatfish does in shifting eye and body axis and changing the" color of his skin." own-bod- - - Orleans. Capt. Robert Laird of the Honduran steamship Atlantida, is a man of few words. In logging the rescue of a crew from an American vessel in distress, Cap tain Laird noted the incident thus: Much lightning, 8 a. m. Sighted Timpson in distress, 2 p. m. Rescued. Crude oil to quiet waves. Captain Laird sailed from his New Orleans home wearing a watch bearFrom the Presiing the inscription: dent of the United States to Robert Laird, master of the Honduran steam ship, Atlantida, in recognition of his humane service in effecting the rescue at sea on October 18, 1924, of the master and crew of the American motor-shipNew j MacMillan Expedition For- Just 3 Lines Tell of Heroic Rescue of 22 at Sea Little Sm DEAFENING Mrs. was recounting to Newly-Ric- h in acquaintance the thrilling events James Timpson. f the evening before, when the house John It. Kennedy, second officer and been burgled. had Lionel Buckley, wireless operator, a matter of fact, she said, "wi As with binoculars, and were presented vere eating our soup medals will be presented to three mem Then, of course interrupted the hers of the crew who manned the of none undid you heard anyBuck-lefriend, small boat, with Kennedy and thing. in which 22 members of the crew of the Timpson were transported His Size Saved Him through hurricane seas from their The girl wus Interested In the yarn crippled ship to the Atlantida. ;he fat old sailor was telling. He had just finished relating his experiences Black Glass Enables with cannibals, and she said: And so the natives didnt harm you, Photograph in Darkness after all? Tokyo. After several years Investiwas the reply. Bless you, no, gation, Jusel Sugiye, a scientist of the They didnt have a saucepan my industrial experimental station of size. 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