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Show j FOUND LOST 1 COLONISTS 'Ing I II Descendants of Scanda-1 Scanda-1 1 navian Settlers In J I North Meet Explorer f) M Seattle, Wash., Sept. 9. Wilhjal- m mar Stefansson, after spending more r E ian our years ,n Arctic exploration iMM rotarned to Seattle today by steamer from Nome, Alaska, and told of his 'j4m probable finding of the descendants - of the Scandanavfan colonists of i m PI'eeQland- "who were last heard of In ) I 3-412 and -who, when trade with . B Greenland -was resumed In the bbv- enteenth oentnry had disappeared. T m 8tefansfion and his companion. Dr. ' JR. M. Anderson of Forest City, Iowa, 2jM mado a valuable zoological and eth- 4m ologlcal collection which Is now' on 1m he steam whaler Belvedere with Dr. ?K 'Anderson and will arrive In Sah f'lM JTranolsco the first week In Novem- I bor on the way to tho American museum mu-seum of natural history of New York. Stefan3son will leave "for New York tomorrow night In Perfect Health. Slcfansson reports Dr. Anderson In perfect health. The Belvedere 1b now whaling off Siberia. During more than four years Stefansson and Anderson An-derson wero together only nine i months as they could cover more ground by separating. Stefansson and Anderson went to tho Arctic in 1908 by -way of Winnipeg, Winni-peg, Edmonton, and down the Mac-kon2lG Mac-kon2lG river to its mouth. They were bound for Coronation Gulf, a region marked in red on Canadian maps (uninhabited) and which thoy had been warned to avoid. Stcfans"-son Stcfans"-son spent tho first winter at the mouth of Colville river, Alaska; the secod at Capo Parry; the third on Coronation Gulf nnd Victoria land; tho fourth at Capo Parry. On leaving: the Arctic he mado a leisurely Journey alone with a dog team from Cape Parry to Point Barrow, Bar-row, 1,000 miles, vslting all tho Eskimo Es-kimo settlements along the coast, fie left Capo Parry March 22 and reached Point Barrow, June 13 The expedition made its headquarters for collecting at Bailey Island, a resort of whaling vessels east from the Mackenzie river, and here the material ma-terial gathered was placed on the Belvedere, It will not bo unpacked until It arrives at the big Now York museum. Feature of the Collection. The feature of tho collection from a popular standpoint are the skins, skulls and leg bones of nineteen barren bar-ren ground grizzly bears, ready for mounting. Only one barren ground grizzly is In any museum. It is supposed sup-posed that the boars of two species are In the collection. The barren ground grizzly attains a weight of 700 pounds. It 1Icb on the thick roots of a herb. At the approach of winter the bear, wblch hae taken on a four-Inch layer of fat, burrows a hole in tho river bank and permits Itself to be covered by snow. Apparently Appar-ently the bear hlbornates without loss of energy for In April, when it leave3 Its hole, the fat Is still Intact However, In April and May thero Is no food and tho lcar grows thin before be-fore roots are obtainable In Juno. Stefansson found potfory farther east than ever before known and also al-so grass baskets Found White Eskimos. Of the Bo-called white Eskimos, Stdffansson said: "Thev wore laller than tho Greenland Green-land Eskimos, but not so tall ns the Alaska Eskimos. They spoke Eskimo, Eski-mo, though I thought I delected somo Norse words, and they lived In the typicdl Eskimo way. I visited thirteen groups of these people, who number probably 2.000. and Baw 1 000 of them. Ton of these groups of tribes had never como Into contact with whites, and had not even a tradition of them Two tribes had traditions of tho Sir John Franklin expedition. An old man in one tribe had seen Richardson in 1S-(S, and an old man In anothor trlbo had seen Collinson in 1853. The thirteenth tribe had been visited by whalers. -Between the country of the blonde Eskimos and the Mackenzie Is a bar- ,ren strip 300 miles wide which Is ncer crossed by Eskimos The Eskimos Es-kimos west of the strip have no knowledge of Eskimos to the east Those to the east know there are western Eskimos, but believe them savage cannibals Survivors of Tribe Are Discovered. "Muskox, polar bear and seals are abundant and the blonde Eskimos live well Many of them have eyes as blue as my own, and ver- blonde eyebrows are the rule. A great many or the men "have sandy or red beards. They have no tradition of their ancestry an-cestry On Victoria land are a number num-ber of stone houses, but the blonde Eskimos shun them, saying they were built by spirits who inhabited the country before men came I was unable un-able to" gather statistics of blue eyes, for wben the blue-eyed persons found I was seeking them they avoided me, not understanglng what I wished However, I took Cephalic measurements measure-ments of a large number of males and I found that the facial Index was the same as that of the Eskimo-Scandinavian Eskimo-Scandinavian half bloods of Greenland, Green-land, and not typically Eskimo. "I mado note of tho tribe vlBited by Collinson in 1S53 He wrote that It numbered 200 persons, Ther6 are now 220 and all are In good health "On the other hand, Dr. Richardson Richard-son in 1S4S found 2,000 Eskimos between be-tween the Mackenzie river and Bailey Island These Eskimos have been "hi contact with whites and only forty persons survive, and these are diseased " Stefansson lived as the Eskimos did. much of the time among them. Eskimo women sewed his garments, but otherwise he needed no aid from Eskimos. Believes Darroll Is Dead. Stefansson believes that Hubert Darrell, an Englishman of good family, fam-ily, who disappeared while on the Arctic shores east of the Mackenzie river, Ib dead. He said todays "In September, 1909, Darrell went to a whaling vessel that was wintering winter-ing at Bailey Island. Darrell was qulto alone and was pulling a sled. This way of traveling was not so fooolhardy as It seems. A nian alone ln the Arctic is in peril only V)-hen he is overtaken by accident or sickness. Then he Is helpless nnd must perish. "On leaving the whaler, Darrell went southwest to Liverpool bay, where his camp was. Eskimos saw him when ho went back to his camp, but did not see him when he loft his camp and they do not know In what direction ho went. He told the Eskimos Es-kimos that he would return next year to buy furs. This was his purpose pur-pose in exploring Ihe coast to learn of the trading possibilities. "Darrol may have gone west along tho coast or toutb up the Anderson river toward Fort Good Hope, As It was known ho intended to go to Dawson. I think ho went west, toward to-ward McPhorson. "Last winter an Eskimo from Bailey Bai-ley Island went up Anderson river and found a blazed three with writing on tho blaze. He told me what he had found and promised me that next year he would cut down the tree and bring the section containing the writing writ-ing to Bailey Island. 1 think the writing waB that of an Indian and not of Darrel. Tho priests at Fort Good Hope have taught the Indians to write." |