Show CONTACT WITH WHITE RACE BRINGS PECULIAR DANGERS increasing number of exploring ex ons pi es chances of spreading D ceases harmless to Us but fatal to them arctic exploration is not only hazard ous and deadly to the white man but to the mau as well the in creasing number polar expeditions has multiplied the chances of carrying the diseases of the white race among these primitive races of the coith a condition which threatens the gravest disaster to the tribes which inhabit that region for they lad inherited immunity from the diseases which to s are almost harmless such as mea whooping cough etc this fact puts a tinge of sadness to every effort put forth to explore the arctic regions and discover the pole dr grenfell whose great work for the people in labrador has made him known all over the world and whose residence in that far north country has afforded him opportunities of studying this peculiar phase of arctic explorations says that there won t be an Esqui mau living m a few ears unless the sending of expeditions laito the far north ceases it Is not the white man s burden it is that of the Esqui mau 1 can prove that ing i artles commit awful sins against the northern natives the Esqui mau as a race Is those that went to buffalo and chicago and the fairs of the white man returned to with disease I 1 hate to see the obliteration of any race the Is going many times tl an yo ir ameri can indian and when the white man s sins are not killing him he Is dying 0 tuberculosis dr grenfell took pains to say that he referred to no particular explorer saying that while the explorer himself may not commit i pecullar crimes the men under him do this statement does not apply however to the peary expedition for the high character chai acter of the men concerned in it and the rigid rule enforced by the commander leaves no ground tor criticism dr criticism therefore does not have to do with the peary I 1 saul maux they are the last of their line now lumbering abo it and are pure children of nature innocent of the vices and immoralities of alon and miles of ice separate them from the rest of the world they inhabit the greenland northwest coast line from cape york following along S sound to lady bay and never have been 1 to cross to the american side they are in ever way quite dissimilar to their degenerate brothers the labrador coast ix I 1 have published a census of the hale sound Esqui maux in my last book nearest the pole said mr peary a few dds ago there were males 85 females and three in tants sex unlearned making a total of on august 31 1905 this tribe numbered males and fe males the number was reduced to in 1902 when an epidemic attacked them the affliction was the white man 8 affliction brought to them I 1 am confident over thousands of miles by the wind it was like a fahn a storm in the alps and it blew heavily from the southeast sweeting from the northeast of I 1 aroi e over the ice cape of greenland to the hale sound dis brict I 1 ei one in february 1892 the was 45 or 50 degrees below zero when the storm began and in 24 hours the mercury rose to 45 above with warm rain |