Show WHITE WAYS NOT WELCOMED f Exnor er tells of dire result of chiv among the ellmo that he has known cold figures and facts presented by show why he wishes to protect bis blond eckl mos from contact with the whites he says in the geographical magazine that according to records in the 60 years up to 1910 the mackenzie river eskimos have een civilized chris tiani zed and reduced by s diseases from over 2 to less than 40 in 1911 there were at cape bathurst about 40 civilized eskimos partly mackenzie river people and partly emigrants and out of that 40 a good 20 were seriously 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 bad been blind for something like eight years and not only were many of the civilized mackenzie people ly but they were also insufficiently clothed and insufficiently fed there was in 1911 probably not a single in in the prince albert sound group who did not have at least two complete suits of warm skin clothing and many had several suits while among the civilized eskimos ot mackenzie at any time between 1908 a dal af itic it fc and 1912 a man who bad even one good suit was hard to find most ot them are so poorly clad that they are unable to hunt seal in winter through being insufficiently protected from the cold this insufficiency of clothing is the result of two things first the in reduction of has destroyed the caribou upon which they depended for clothing and secondly the multiplication of new wants such as the desire for tea tobacco sugar and ammunition forces them to barter for these expensive luxuries the skins which they might otherwise hare used td dress in for the cold |