Edgefield advertiser. [volume] (Edgefield, S.C.) 1836-current, 1893-04-06
"A TRIP TO GREENLAND.
Time Three Hours. Fare Twenty.
Five Gents.

Five Gents.
The Arctic, regions though wrap
in eternal sileLce and frozen land
acapes, derive special interest from
the number and character of th'
daring explorers who have pene
trated their awful solitudes ane
spent years of privation and peri
among their seas and m ,untaini
of ice. Some, Ike Sir John Frank
lin and his devoted followers
never lived to return. Others, like
DR.. Kane, of Philadelphia, reached
home in shattered health to tel.
what they had seen, land then todie
Undaunted by the published mar
rations and perils of past explorers
others have followed; and among
the latest, Lieut.. Peary was brought
to the front, on this occasion by
one of the rescuing party who
gave a vivid picture of his per.
sonal experiences.
1t is one thing to read and sing
of "Greenland's icy mountains; 2
it is another. thing to have before
you one who has made the trip And
seen and felt whathe describes and
who shows how a native Eskimo
looks in full dress, and tells what
he eats, and how he lives and illus.
trates and explains it all as he
goes along.
Such was the intellectual treat
afforded an Edgefeld audience on
last Friday night by Mr.. S. J.
Entriken one of the Peary Relief
Expedition; and the Y. M. G. A.
may be very properly congratu-
lated on this.happy feature in their
noble work, which furnishes in
structive and healthy entertain
ment to old and young.
Mr.. Entriken YVES one of the
eight chosen by the Boston Acad-
emy of Sciences to 60 last summer
on the expedition in search of
Lieut. Peary of the United States
navy who was then in Greenland.
The speaker is a young man, ap-
between twenty and thirty
years of age with a good looking
face and figure.
The stage was furnished with a
map of Greenland on which the
speaker located the places he had
visited and that. had been explored
by previous expeditions, also show
ing the most northerly portion of
the island reached by any vessel,
the Americans having won this
distinction by hedistance of three
les. The address was, in synop-
sis, substantially as follows: Q =
ALI of the inhabitants of Green-
land are not called Eskimos, only
those in thesnortherly part receiv-
ing this appellation, the remainder
being called Greenlanders and
boasting of a higher degree of
civilization. The religion of the
Eskimo is similar to that of the
Indian. Believing in good and
bad spirit in one person, their ideal
hereafter is happy hunting
ground in a warm climate where
the seals and walruses are har-
pooned to the shore ready at any
time for theil convenience. Their
food is all eaten raw, and their
time for eating and sleeping Is
irregular, whenever their inclina-
ton prompts. Fire is procured by
striking flint together, and it is
sometimes half day before they
succeed in getting blaze.
When the vessel arrived at any
of the Eskimo settlements. they
were very friendly to the white
men and enjoyed trading, the men
willingly giving up anything for a
pal. of pants, and the women con.
a needle precious gift.
This race is a very short lived one,
forty years being the extreme limit
of longevity as verified to the
speaker by the Oldest inhabitants; I;
they are not wholly given, over to
melancholy, however, but have
their sports, all being passionately
fond of football. They are also
very strong and have wonderful
endurance. Most of The men are
short of stature, although they
range from three to six feet in
height. The women attain the
height of four feet.
The burial of the dead among
the Eskimos is conducted in a
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