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Show VISIT WITH" QUEER TRIBE! Two More Explorers Return Re-turn From North-Saw Blond Eskimos San Francisco, Nov 2. Corroborat- , ing in every essential detail the story of tho discovery of blonde Eskimo tribes recently give.n the world of science by Vilhjalmr Steffansson, his partner In Arctic exploration. Dr. Rudolph Ru-dolph Martin Anderson of Forest Cltv, Iowa, arrived here today on the whaler whal-er Belvedere after four and a half years in the frozen north. He was accompanied by Professor E. De Koven Lofflngwell of Pasadena, Cal.. who has spent three and a half years making observations In the vicinity vi-cinity of tho Flaxman Islands and surveying and mapping about 150 miles of the coast line. jl was over tne uape Bexley territory, ter-ritory, on the mainland, and on Prince Albort sound, acrOBs and to the south of the Dolphin and Union straits, that Steffansson first got into touch with the blonde aborigines," Bald Dr. An-I dcrson. '-In the spring of 1910 wo' lost most of our dogB. while at Cape Barry, Langton bay and Franklin bay, where we bad wintered. Steffansson and I parted company, ho leaving with two Eskimos for the oast while I pushed on to the Mackenzie delta for supplies. We met again at Langton Lang-ton bay in the autumn of 1910 nnd he told me of the queer tribe he had discovered. dis-covered. "In December we started out and were 31 days crossing 2Q0 miles of the worst strip of laud we ever encountered. en-countered. We explored the Httlo known Horton river and made records rec-ords and compazs calculations. This is one of the largest rivers flowing Into the Atlantic. This Is a group of harren grounds, and we put in a supply sup-ply of caribou for our dash, fir Coronation Coro-nation bay in tho sprin?. From Dease river to Dismal lake and to the Copper Cop-per Mine river and Coronation bay was our course, the last 75 miles over the ice, before we found these strange people. First we came on a deserted desert-ed settlement and later an inhabited village with a population of id 6ouls. "There were none of the iflat nosed Eskimos of the true Mongolian type among these people. Their teaturos' never bore the characteristics of tho human race. They do not know where they came from and no one else knows. "They have no records, no history, no skill, and nothing of their history 'can be traced. -They may he descendants descen-dants of an early Iceland colony. I Along tho seaboard theie is nothing new worth logislering, no Ideals, no particular purpose in life. For six months of the year they simplj c-iet, c-iet, living in Enow houses and eating seal moat. In the summer they move to the mainland and subsist on caribou cari-bou meat. Stef.'ansfon has seen about 250 more of the people on tho Smday trip . They hunt with a crude bow and ni-row ni-row and spear fish through holes in the Ice In kindling a fire they strike two crystallized stones together. Dr. Anderson brings back hundreds ot specimens of mammals, birds, fish and minerals, which will be divided into classes by the geosraphical stir- vey at Toronto, Canada, and the American Museum of Natural History His-tory in New York. He has 35 specimens speci-mens or caribou. |