Show COLONISTS OF GREENLAND it la Is believed lacut LI cut reary peary may nave found their descendants there is good reason to believe judging from the contents of papers transmitted transmit teil privately to my hands some ome months moth ago sago 0 al though although I 1 have never spoken of the matter hitherto that peary in whose behalf a tc cu in ing expedition is about to start for the arctic has actually met with the famous lost colonists of greenland so oaid ahl ona on 1 of the most distinguished ethnologists ests in in the government employ at washington washing ton lie he added you may ma remember that the norsemen norseman Nor semen established during early times in greenland one off these colonies was entirely cut of from civilization and lost as is recorded in the sagas and other traditional histories of those people winters grew colder and one precedent edly severe season reason following another the little gathering of squatters in that icy region was shut away from the rest of maril mankind cind by frozen fields along the shore and the heaping ap of mighty ice cliffs through which there was no passage and over which it was impossible to climb that was six hundred years ago since then expedition after expedition has sought these lost settlers in vain owing to geographical indefiniteness in the original accounts written on tho the subject not oven even the locality occupied by the colony could bo be very nearly ascertained certa ined I 1 am ain not at liberty just now to say more than that peary lins has apparently discovered the descendants of these vani vanished klied norsemen norseman Nor semen somewhat less than two hundred in number dwelling in a sort of icebound aask without either cither entrance or exit as they themselves have so many generations believed to all intents and purposes they are so many rip ilip van winkles peary is now at whale sound next summer bummer lie he will strike northward with the intention to determine the coast line as far as it extends if the land L extends x tends as far as the polo pole he may attain ta in that lon long 0 sought goal A |