The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1892-03-23
THE MYSTIC GREENLAND WOMAN

THE MYSTIC GREENLAND WOMAN
| Miss Olaf Krar~r Tells Her Story In New
York-Conments OF the SkepticnL
Miss Olaf Krarer. who calls herself native
| Of East Greenland. addressed large audience
last evening at the Second Reformed Presby-
terrain Church. Though she says she Is an
Eskimo. she has light hair and a fair skin. and
has every appearance OF being OF Scandinavian
origin.
She Is a dwarf. forty inches high. and says
she is IS years old. Il is asserted In Manitoba
| that she Is a native Icelander. and her appear
| ance and discourse seem to Justify the infer
ence that she is an Icelandc peasant Of worry
| little education. but rather bright In her mem
| tai characteristics.
Sho repeated last night the allegations that
have attracted to her some public attention.
| They are briefly. that she was born on the east
coast Of Greenland. and that her people. the
| Eskimos living there. never heard OF
white men until six 1celandio fisher
men who had been shipwreckcd struG-
gled to tho coast where she lived. She
does not remember when they came or how
| long they remained. but they finally deter
mined to 60 home by crossing the ice between
| Greenland and Iceland with dog sledges.
| Three Eskimo families. including her own. de-
termined to accompany the Icelanders. They
set out across the ice. travelled q
little south OF east for distance OF
$50 to 100 miles. whether Danish or English
| miles the lecturer does not know. and finally
reached Iceland. the lecturer thinks. on its
| northwest coast She was Is years old when
she left her native land on this remarkable
two t months. Vas made in i572
"A number Of persons who have beard Miss
expressed the opinion that such a sledge jour
ney as she Describes was never made. and here
arc some q the reasons upon which this con-
l. Such a Journey has not been recorded in
pha ods % BY
government II Icelanders wrecked on tho
coast had returned h0s by
Danish Covering emit and the Geographical 50;
news VseGa% R as has long given
sndy "
published the results Of its official exploration
a There Is sun no e record that the waters be-
tween Greenland and Iceland have ever been
,rozen over. These waters are among the best
waters that the Danish cxped itions. sent out
repeatedly to seek on the east coast for tho
and We're unable to reach the east coast only be-
cause the enormous masses Of drift ice from
ssa ssd sRoas he
attainsbs; In the t ahttempts to reach East
Greenland because the opportunity to employ
e sreenfa nd and Iceland has been ID ed with
but it Is mpossbe to sedse over this Ice
as oyer the housetops OF q city: =, .,o.,
loss sFs es a sr
reputed Greenland home among the natives.
about 500 in number Th9 we're we're, dis dis
ans in Eyery
authority ana Or. Nansen; ~ latest white
until Holm and Garde visited it which would
4. The, sea over which Miss krarar says she
hs
between, the years 1915 and 1883. the vessels
between the two coasts oasis is possible, .,
oil tho Eskimos living on the east coast, He
r Sas Of a the east bu fH s an s no Hns
from them about the six white ne, men who Miss
natyes and most Of hs ton ys
at ssA al to what We know q he sast coast
Etae@ent 81 Se aHahs Of any
y 9 happens That these naaiyes have have
been tho subject Of a most minute and admira-
suits sui Of Which have appeared in in two
large volumes With supplement w vol
Dr. Dr. Nausen said OF the East Greenlanders
later confirmed the accuracy Of the Danish
Testimony will show its quality,
She said last nSEtn hnt the T.eops live all
!s sss they live Mntsr s. from
feet long. made q stones and turf. each hut
all tGs IN tho
winter huts was teirty-two. In summer they
Coast natives. Five hundred md forty -eGht
Of them have boon measured and In height
they sss s pa Hef ss he ss Sf c
dead into the sea EXCEPT when The e, invalid dies
abandon the hut leaving the dead body in It.
she syfb th eat Al 9ss
showing tie methqds Of cooking their Iood;, 49,
she ,h sbat @ hsy
se in as t ESssS hs and in
dacet from photographs. and d ;rs mi,
their NV wsnnE ThS
not the slightest resemblance to the attire of
any east coast native ever seen by Graah.
Holm. Garde. or Nassen.
These are only a few OF tho many respects in
which Miss Krarer's narrative, differs from the
descriptions. OF other, authorities Many
wholly original. such as the remarkable
assumption that the East Cost Eskimo are dc.
scendants Of the old Morse settlers and that
the West Coast natives have great deal Of
Indian blood In their veins.
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A Thru foot Vein Uncovered that AssaYs