Show WHITE WAYS NOT WELCOMED Exnor er T alla alls of dire results of cl chiv among the eskimos eskimo that he has known cold figures and facts presented by jalmar Stefan saon show why he wishes to protect his blond eskimos mos from contact with alli the whites ile he says in the geographical magazine that according to records in the go 60 years 5 ears up to 1910 the mackenzie river eskimos have been civilized chris tiani zed and reduced by white mens dir diseases semes from over 2000 to less than 40 in 1911 there were at cape bathurst Ha about 40 civi civilized lUdd eskimos partly mackenzie river liver people and partly emigrants and out of that 40 a good 20 were seriously III two of them permanently insane while in an uncivilized group which from the very beginning has been isolated from white men we found only one sick an old man who had been blind tor for eom something ething like eight years and not only were many of the civilized Macli mackenzie enzie people chronically ill but they were also insufficiently clothed and insufficiently fed there was in 1911 probably not a single individual in the prince albert sound group who did not have at least two complete sulta suits ot of warm skin cloth clothing Lg and many had several suits bulls while among the civilized eskimos of the mackenzie Mack enilo at any time between 1903 1908 and 1912 a m man a u who had bad even one good suit was hard to find most alost of them are so BO poorly clad that they are unable to hunt bunt seal in winter through being insufficiently protected from the cold this insufficiency of clothing Is the result of two things first the introduction tro of rilles has destroyed the caribou upon which they depended for clothing and secondly the multiplication of new wants such euch as the desire for tea tobacco sugar and ammunition forces them to barter for these the s 0 expensive luxuries the skins which ch they might otherwise have used ta dress in for the cold |