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Show LONG-LOST TRIBE IS POUND ! Eskimos Believed to Have Lived ; Alone Since Time of Columbus. At the north end of Hudson bay Is an island ubout the size of the State of .Maine, which Is called Southampton island is-land on which has h. , ii ills. o i led a lost I nil., of Eskimos which has been without any intercourse with other human beings foi c nturles and ur.tll ti few years ago had nevtr seen a white man. Apparently these people have dwelt here since before the time of Columbus. They are still In the stone age. knowing no met'- als. They grow no plants and their homes Bin l.ulll by putting together the great jaws of the wjhale and covering th. ni over with skins. In the middle of ihls dwelling Is the familiar elevated place on which stands the lamp. With this they cook, light their dwelling provide warmth, melt snow and dry their clothes. The whale Is their Chief means of subsistence They us" the bones in a variety of wavs, even making their cups and buckets of It by bending It in shape and s. wing on the bottom. The trlli. Is composed of bftv-elght Individuals, In-dividuals, about evenly divided between the sexes. They speak a dialect pecullur to themselves and quite unlike- that spoken spok-en by any either tribes of Eskimos A fact which shows the p.-rfcct Isolation of the community Is evidenced by their ignorance of BOapstono. Among other tribes It Is the favorite material for pots and kettles, and wh- n th-y are unable to obtain It In their own neighborhood they Will make-long make-long pilgrimages lasting se ve ral years In I quest of this material But as the people of this lost tribe arc In Ignorance of such a stone tin y make their receptacles from slabs of limestone, which they glue together to-gether in rectangular shapes by mixing ut-er's blood and grease. |