The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1891-12-17
AN INTERESTING ESKIMO
WOMAN.

Miss krarer, the young Eskimo
who spoke in this city the other eve
ing, stopped at the Cooley aonse last
week and cordially received a number
OF interesting visitors, to whom she
was very ready to tell the s-ory OF her
life Miss KrareT is the only Eskimo
In this country, and as representa-
tive of that bound region her peo
pie have reason to be proud OF her.
She has mastered the English Ian
guage, speaking it with remarkable
ndelcy, and possesses Il keenness OF
intellect that one would hardly ex
pect to find IL representative OF that
benuYnbed race Miss Krarer was
Do-n in little hamlet on the coast OF
Greenland, 1900 miles away from lee
land She Is scarcely more than three
feet In hight, butin her native home
she was a large woman, being above
the average size. When she was Is
| years old party Of shipwrecked Ice
.anders took refuge in the settlement
| in which she lived, and when, after a
| years visit they We're about to depart
thcy persuaded her father to accom-
pany them to Iceland 1t is a custom
in this frozen country for the entire
family to accompany the head of the
| house whenever he sets out on long
journey, and accordingly father, moth
er and eight children started with
the sailors on their trip across the
frozen fields. Arriving in Iceland,
! 5hey proved to be quite as much of a
! curiosity as she had been in this
I country. Miss krarer being the young
e.-t Of the family was selected as the
mos apt, and her education was i'm
media tely begun in the mission school.
Her am Jition was still unsatistied and
She was determined to come to the
United Sta tes, despite the disparaging
reports which. she heard III Iceland OF
| Uncle Sans d oman.
Her account IF the customs IN her
native land is very entertaining
These queer people are probably the
most isolated inhabit ants on the lace
of the earth AquithCtLa,' the native
village Of Miss Krarer has as near as
she could reckon about 100 lnhabl-
tants and their nearest towns from Az
to 80 miles distant; calcl 'latIon OF
numbers is unknown to them, to DelnS
the limit OF their arithmetical co Uputa
ton. At every sunrise each chilG' puts
a fish bone in Il small bag made OF
skin. each one differing in kind to us
| tinguish its owner and by this mean $
| they know their age, the owner OF the
bag being Of rs many years as there
are bones in the bag for III that land
the sun rises but once a year. When
10 is reached they tie them i'll bunch
and begin anew, reckoning them by
so many tens" And there IS no
scarcity OF fish bones, for the average
| Eskimo needs but 30 bones to measure
the length Of his mortal coil, and a
person over 50 years old is looked
| upon with wonder. And it is little
/ wonder, for care for the sick Is I'M
known to them and they think of the
| dead Or dying as accompanied by the
dreadful spirits. II one of their uul
! Der shows any symptoms OF sickness
| he is removed to asep3ratc apartment
and lett to fight his ow4 battle OLce
Il day piece of blubbel' is thrown &C
| him and il it does llot chGmce TO come
within his reach no must wa;-4 till oohc
next day. When his ago ~ IS over hc
is removed to the most cOnVanie 1t spot
and covered under the snow 1hl
use OF utensils or implements Of any
| kind Is wholly foreign to the IS, dmo
The tusk OF the walru5 IS ther / nife
sA.d this together with the shou de,
| Ltade Of the polar bear makes 1. leil
81 ale with which to bury the de d
The derive their sustenance sole ly
by hunting aud fishing, and the VIDA
rus asks again makes the spear. Nc
attel apt is male to neutraliza the cold
by Il ire aithoug gil occasionally q small.
fire is burned 20 light the snow hut
During the so-called summer season
Il little mo, ; is gathered, and this to
gether with the blubber oil is THEN
only fuel