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Show Life in the North The Greeks had . a notion that everything grew smaller as we went farther north, and that finally life y disappeared completely. Nothing conld be further from the. truths Well above the Arctic circle there are forests of trees that are more than a hundred feet high. The Eskimos Es-kimos are not perhaps as .tail as Americans or .Scotchmen, but' they are quite up to the average of Italians Ital-ians and French men.. The Arctic regions, re-gions, far from showing no signs of life, teem with .many varieties of birds, sea animals, and fish. The polar bear certainly Is not a puny specimen of life. Still another exploded ex-ploded theory is that blizzards are more fierce at the pole than anywhere any-where else. Mr. Stefansson was of the opinion that the blizzards of Montana, North Dakota and Manitoba Mani-toba are far more severe than those of the Arctic Detroit Free Press. |
