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Show RETURNS FROM THE FAR NORTH Explorer Tells of Probable Discovery of Descendants of Scandinavian Colonists. Seattle, Yv7ash. Viihjalmar Ste-fansson, Ste-fansson, after spending more than four years in Arctic exploration, returned re-turned to Seattle on Monday b steamer from Nome, Alaska, and told of his probable discovery of the descendants de-scendants of the Scandinavian colonists colon-ists of Greenland who were last heard of in 1412 and who, when trade w"th Greenland was resumed in the seventeenth seven-teenth century, had disappeared. Stefansson and his companion, Dr. R. M. Anderson of Forest City, la., made a valuable zoological and ethnological ethno-logical collection, which is now on the steam whaler Belvedere, with Dr. Anderson, and will arrive in San Francisco the first week in November on the way to the American Museum of Natural History, New York. |