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Show ' in 1894, was mistaken by Chinamen for one of their own people. It has been suggested that their invocation of the spirits of their dead may be a survival of Asiatic ancestor worship." Other parts of the narrative tell of the flora and fauna of the Arctic. "In some places," says the commander, " in this coast in summerthe sum-merthe grass is thick and long .as on a New England farm. Poppies bloom - here with dandelions, buttercups and saxifrage ; though, to the best of my knowledge, the flowers are all devoid of perfume. I have seen bumblebees even north of Whale Sound ; there are flies and mosquitoes, and even a few spiders. Among the fauna of this country are the deer, the Greenland caribou, the fox both blue and white the Arctic hare, the polar bear, and perhaps once in a generation a stray wolf." PEARY AND THE ESKIMOS. Robt. E. Peary, in the February number of Hampton's magazine, presents a solution of the problem as to the origin of the Eskimos. Of the Greenland tribe, which assisted him in the discovery of the North Pole, he says: j "The members of this little tribe inhabiting the western coast of Greenland from Cape York to Etah are in many ways quite different dif-ferent from the Eskimos of Danish Greenland, or those of any other Arctic territory. There are now between two hundred and twenty and two hundred and thirty in the tribe. They are savages, but they are not savage ; they are without government, but they are not law-loss law-loss ; they are utterly uneducated according to our standard, yet they exhibit a remarkable degree of intelligence. In temperament like children, with all a child's delight in little things, they are nevertheless never-theless enduring as the most matured of civilized men and women, and the best of them are faithful unto death. Without religion and having no idea of God, they will share their last meal with anyone who is hungry, while the aged and helpless among them are taken care of as a matter of course. They are healthy and pure-blooded; they have no vices, no intoxicants, no bad habits not even gambling. gambl-ing. Altogether, they are a people unique upon the face of the earth. A friend of mine calls them philosophic anarchists of the north. "I have been studying the Eskimos for eighteen years, and no more effective instrument for Arctic work could be imagined than these plump, bronze-skinned, keen-eyed and black-maned children of nature. Their very limitations were their most valuable endowments endow-ments for the purposes of my work. "There is a theory, first advanced by Sir Clements Markham, president of the Royal Geographioal Society of London, that the Eskimos are the remnants of an ancient Siberian tribe, the Onkilon that the last members of this tribe were driven out on the Arctic ocean by the fierce waves of Tartar invasion in the Middle Ages, and that they found their way to the New Siberian Islands, thence eastward over lands yet undiscovered to Grinnell Land and Greenland. Green-land. I am inclined to believe in the truth of this theory for tho following reasons : "Some of the Eskimos are of a distinctly Mongolian type, and they display many Oriental characteristics, such as a mimicry, ingenuity, in-genuity, and patience in mechanical duplication. There is a strong resemblance between their stone houses and the ruins of houses found in Siberia. The Eskimo girl brought home by Mrs, Peary, |