Show ONCE INHADITED ALASKA 1 = I Mmniili That Itnte the nlttrnre fan f-an Anrlrnt tiers there I feint Harrow Alaska the northern moat point of land of the North American Amer-ican continent has some Interesting I graveyard of Its own About eleven I year ago Lieutenant Ray In his report re-port of the polar expedition to Point Harrow recorded that In digging a abaft twentysix feet below the earths surface to obtain earth temperature he found a pair of wooden goggle pointIng point-Ing to the great lapse of time Intro these shore were first people Tho last number of the Alaska Mining Ilee ord Mr that this country waa undoubtedly un-doubtedly Inhabited long before Colum Gus discovered America Of the origin or descent of the Inhabitant no definite defi-nite trace has been found and hero are no record of tho past among the people who now live there Their language lan-guage abound In legend but nono give any data by which to Judge how long these dcxotato shore have been Inhabited Tho ruin of ancient village vil-lage and winter hut along the seashore sea-shore and In the Interior show that tho country hes been Inhabited for ccn turlc Thero ore mounds at Iolnt Harrow marking the alto of three huts dating back to the lime when the native na-tive had no Iron and the men talked like dog Time mound stand In the middle of a marh and Ibo linking of the land caused Ibo lie to bo flooded l and abandoned Tho Inhabitant In lime past hate followed the receding llsio of Ice which alone time capped the northern part of tills continent and hats moved along Ibo coolest lino of ravel Thl la shown In the general lalrlbutlon of n ilmllar people apeak I hug n ulntllar tongue from Greenland 10 Hehrlng straits Tho distribution of I the race today mark the routo traveled trav-eled Tho seashore led them along the oasis of Inbrador and Greenland Hud sons Hay and lla tributary water hey came down this Yukon ao rich In mineral 10 peoplo the shores of that Irtalll and tho Interior of Alaska and raveled along the coast to Cape ITInco ot Wales To till day they use shoes instead of deer tha native of North America having never domeitlcatcd the reindeer and they speak n different onguo from their neighbor Derail the trait In Siberia Homo writer on the ubjeet have advanced Iho theory that the native of Alaska oro descendant at the race of people that Cortex drove out of Mexico other that they are Japanese nr Chinese In origin and others Mill that they came to this country coun-try across the strait from Siberia Boar Bo-ar na definite Information la I concerned con-cerned one gueu 1111 I good aa another Tile lonely mound at Point Harrow mark thin antiquity of the race but hey do not tell III story |