The Kinsley graphic. [volume] (Kinsley, Kan.) 1890-1940, 1892-03-18
ALONE AMONG EsoUlMAUSS.

Unpleasant Experiences % q Loas CarPoa-
ter On Sc LuEronSs IulsHd-
II thought / was a dead man, surs,
when ives up among those savage Es-
quim&uE," said q San Francisco man %
q Chronicle reporter a few days ago.
II went mp there on the schooner
John Mccullough to put mp a house
which the vessel carried for the new
mission station on St Lawrence ISL
Endr and have just returned 20 San
Francisco / expected TO End the reve-
nue. cutter Bear there so to protect me,
but she didn't show mp, and there I vVas,
the only white man among two or three
hundred savagea.
"As soon as the schooner left the
trOubl began. There were at least two
factions among the natives, headed by
rival chiefs I didn't know a single
word OF the language, but as we'll as
could make out they were Sighting 20
see which could get possession Of me,
and consequently, as they thought. OF
the house.
Almost every day a lot Of them
would get drunk on mean whisky, which
they had procured from the vvhalers,
and then there was the mischief to pay.
They would cut one another with knives
until the blood ran all over their bodies,
and pistols and rifles were Brandishsd in
the most reckless manner Imaginable.
II had some food left me by the
schooner and had some more from tho
English gun boat Pheasant when she
touched at the island, bat it didn't do
me much good The Oldest and most
interruptions Of the chiefs, I-yOu-ooiz-
ahOOlE, took possession of me aud my
food, and lac and his family ate most of
IL. had a revolver with me, but that
WAS no protection, for nearly every Is
quiulEu had q better one, besides a rihe
or shotgun
Even after completed the school
house 1 was forced 70 live in the chiefs
dirty tent, infested with vermin and
allied with the siclrsning OdOra OF half
Putrid vvalFus meat and oil, and at night
had to sleep among those Esquimaux,
too They all strip stark naked aud
sleep under reindeer skins instead oE
blankets
when weeks passed and the Bear
didn't come, as told them though she
would, the only one among them that
could speak a little broken English
would say 90 me: You bad man, you
lies Bear no come, what for you no talk;
you think bad Then they would ali
look at me as if they had half mind
70 Kill me aud be done with It, and 1
thought several times my last hour had
come.
what sort of houses have they9
Now they live in a sort OF tent formed
fastened together with sealslrin thongs
and covered with yvalrus hide; but they
formerly lived in underground houses,
using immense whale ribs for timbers
instead Of logs I saw the remains Of
several houses Of the kind
Eyes, much of their food is horribly
disgusting to us. They kill vvalrus in
May and put the meat in holes in the
ground BY August il Is horribly pu-
trid, but the poor creatures have moth
ing else to eat and 80 they are obliged
to live on it.
DO think they can be civilizcd2
o, yes They have plenty of sense and
show wonderful ingenuity in the man
ufacture of their tools and weapons
If the United States government would
only take more energetic measures 10
suppress this unlawful liquor traffic I
feel sure the Esquimaux could be rap
idly civilized San Francisco Chron-
Gle.