Smyrna times., 1855-11-14

DR. Kane has formed the philanthrepe schem
of collecting these people together He pre-
poses, we are told. to gather them from tn
most Northern regions and bring them dow
to the Danish settlements, where they can en-
Joy more comforts and be subject to less vicis
situdes. ... ...
The Esquimaux have a priest, whom the,
call Anjekek, who performs marriages and bu
rial services, and is supposed to have some in
fiuence over the heart. When couple il
married, their friends have imposed upon them
for certain length of time, abstinence from
certain kinds of meats; and when young maj
or Young woman dies, all the young men ant
young women of the settlement are condemn.
ed to the same sort of abstinence. The priest
is believed TO have power over the walrus and
SEAL and in time of pressing scarcity to be
able to call them up to the surface of the water
Their faith in the Anjekek is the only approach
they have to religious belief They spend their
long winter of four months total darkness. in
sleeping and eating, never going out to hunt
unless pressed by necessity. They have no
companylng motion of the body, which can
hardly be designated dancing. They do not
use tobacco in any shape, nor do they smoke
any other weed or ront for the purpose of stimu-
lants, nor would they allow any smoking in
their huts. The children always get a name
selected from whatever subject happens to be
on the tdpis in the paternaI hut when they are
born.
IN Leaveley or GOdhaon, island of Disco, the
population of $50 or 300 is composed principal
ly OF Esquimaux, pure and half blood. They
manage to keepup good deal of social enjoy
ment by means Of dancing, singing, and music
They have peculiarly good ear for music, and
can manage to play on the jewsharp or violin
any air they hear. The women are said to be
great rogues, if not in stealing gentlemen's
hearts, at least in piIfering tin pots and plates,
and anything of that kind We saw one Young
gentleman connected with the expedition, who
had no less than three specimens of the hair of
young ladies of I.eavely. One of them is as
dark as the ravens wing, of the silkiest tex
lure, and came from the locks of a full-blooded
Esquimaux; another is a dark brown, very fine.
and belonged to a ha blood and the third. of
golden color, and of equally fine texture,
showed unmistakably the Danish blood Of the
ady's sire. We presume these love tokens
will be duly treasured, though not at the Na-
tional Museum at Washington. This same
gentleman has a quantity Of skins aud furs
which he has brenght home with him as remi-
nscenses of Greenland. But they will have
to be fumigated or to undergo some other pro-
cess of publication, for the Esquimaux ladies,
who have the tanning operation in charge, not
being able to procure bark, have recourse to a
liquid which answers as well, but which careful
do not tolerate the presence of
in a room.
The Esquimaux never resort TO the barbarous
mode Of cutting off frost-bitten limbs. They
apply TO them piece of rabbit skin, and al ways
with good effect. We are sorry to see thatone
Of the expedition lost his life by the amputation
Of frost bitten foot, and that three others had
TO suffer amputation.
1t may be fact worthy of notice, that DR..
Kane "ent to the Arctic regions provided with
apparatus and plates, but that
tr.m the peculiar nature of the atmosphere no
Impressions could be taken. These and a yalu-
able collection of specimens of natural history.
geology, and casts of the Esquimaux, with the
Libraries of Capt. Kane and officers, had to be
left behind but the drawings, reports instru-
ments and documents of the expedition were
preserved.
The highest Acknowledgements are paid to
DIR. Kane for the skill, ability, resoluteness and
care OF his men which he exhibited. When
out on sleighing excursions, he took his place
in harness as well as the meanest OF his men,
and when the Advance was finally abandoned,
he supplied them with bread made with his own
hands, travelling back to the vessels to bake in
the stoves. This lie continued during the
whole thirty days that the party was enroute
for the open sea, and he has travelled in his
no less than eight hundred miles on
a stretch, calling on his way at an Esquimaux
hut, in which four of his men were sick, and
bread with them. These same indi-
viduals he afterwards carried in his sleigh, one
by one, TO the, main party. 90 = '.'i ss. =.
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