Show ESKIMOS DYING OUT I PROBLEM PR 1 of annually Increasing A ing seriousness for tor Canada is I that of ot maintaining her Eski Eskimo mo nO wards In her hur to I ot o A peculiarly appalling instance of o this has just been reported by the Rev nev S St t Stewart an Anglican missionary from the tho diocese of at Newfoundland who has been heen laboring amongst tho heathen na natives natives tives ot bay ba for tol tho past four jears His HII report Is that last winter owing to 10 of deer se seVero ero weather and poor Ioor hunting otherwise many of o tho natives In hI the territory perished cI ot starvation and in III some in instances II stances tho survivors had h to maintain m I II life by reeding 01 Ol il sir s 1 dead I What Is believed to bo be an nn evidence o of or this Is ts embodied In the tho account ot or I tho Iho of ot a Newfoundland vessel essel fishing for cod in bay lJay and whose crew cro while a IL shore horo one day In tho past ast summer came upon some SO skeletons with guns Kuns and other articles lying by b them At first It was thought that these vvera 01 tho ot victims of a II tribal war toro faro between the Eskimos of o the coast and the tho Indians of ot tho Interior and that such Ruch an encounter had llad but recent recently ly Iy taken place Ilace Tho facts becoming 1 I I known knowlI an Inquiry was ordered which disclosed that no such occurrence nce had taken place as tho tribes arc aro well known as us to o their locality and nd numbers But Dut the still more tragic fact Is teamed that scores of ot Eskimos hud had starved to death that others hUll had lived on all tho dead bodies bod let the skeletons tons seen In this case being supposed tp be the UIO remains of some of ot the tho vic victims tc tims of ot these thes tragedies Their Theil contact with tho white man In 11 the tho shape of at whaling whalin crows has bas Inoculated them with all the tho white mans vices lees mid some of at his loathsome js jis oa cs A P Low of ot the Canadian Exploring l expedition of ot in III Ino steamer SI Neptune describes tho th lion of ot a tribe of or Eskimos on South Southampton ampton Island at the mouth of hon bay In a 11 single winter They The num souls and made shift to live with rail fair success without civilized implements of o war or chase us III they tho isolated trum any 1111 neigh neighbors liars bors But Dul in III 1900 a n AV haling Jinn established a CI station and manned It tt with a party p of ot Eskimos flom one of ot UH Its other pouts who could use u IL modern repeating success successfully successfully fully These The e slaughtered the Ihl and tho deer of ot tho for the sake of oC tho thu hide which they tM sold Bold to 0 whaling employers and as us a Il re 10 result sult the III whole of ot tho original tribe per pcr perished of o starvation during the tho second winter while the others who were mor morally ally i expansible for tOI death if It not 1 L I U survived the aid ulel ot oC the provisions furnished them by b their Two To years eul Inter luler whaling station was aban abandoned abandoned and now no this large Island Is h absolutely The same f Mory Is IR told lold of other othel whaling stations Canada is now no sending annual expeditions to 10 the thu region to 10 release reI coso tho tubes mid cope copo with this thin problem as best heRt It may one OliO of ut the first steps to this th s emI which was taken by h Major Moody of ot tho Northwest police now governor of ot Hudson lluy JIll was IS to the ox 1 port of or Mus lox skins HO that the na natives tives should not exterminate these animals for Cur the tho of ot the hides and lInd lIndy HO y destro their own on f rood food sup SUII supply ply of or the futuro Boston Transcript |