The Weiser signal. [volume] (Weiser, Idaho) 1890-1904, 1894-01-25

Fox, famous in arctic history in connection
with the search for Sir John Franklin, makes
from two to three trips every summer from
Copenhagen to the camp carrying supplies
On The first trip out in the spring it carries
seventy men, and on thelast one back in the
fall it takes nearly the same number home
few come to the United States every year
While in Greenland they are supplied with an
abundance Of bread and cured meats, with
weiss beer and coffee. They have some vege-
tables which are imported from the United
States, aud all the game and fish they want
Ducks and gulls swarm about the ford, and
the apparently barren mountains are the
homes OF many ptarmigan and rabbits. How
ever, close season for the short game on
the other side Of the ford is wisely main
toined The finest trout and salmon are to
be had for the taking, and the arctic cod is
also easily gotten. The men are allowed to
go hunting and fishing almost at will
ONLY THREE WOMEN ALLOWED IN CAMP.
The women Of the camp are interesting
The superintendent only is allowed to have
his wife and children and a maid with him
Two childr,d have been born in the snper-
intendent's home in this old camp. The
tTst, 1t il interesting to know was Daniel
Smith, the artist, whose father was the first
superintendent of the mine. The third wo-
man OF the camp is Maria, very fat and
very jolly Eskimo She and her son, julius,
have little stone house by themselves and
both are employed as servants. No other
women are allowed there because in the
estimation OF the authorities, the presence OF
numbers would arouse passions and Jealous
feelings that would lead to crimes difficult to
punishin that far off land
Another most interesting feature of the
ford is the Eskimo settlement called Arsuk.
eight miles below the mine. Here is group
oil huts built OF broken stone and sods, and
lighted with hollow stone lamps, in which
seal oil and moss are burned. There is a
white man with his family living here in a
comfortable house as Indian agent, while
another comfortable house, built by the
crown, serves as an Eskimo hospital, in
charge of a well educated physician No
government in the world takes such good
care of its aboriginal people as good as old
King Christian does of the Eskimo. Con
slider what it means when it is said that
neither seaman nor any other man can land
there unless he can pass careful phJ steal
examination. A tourist would find that the
darkest OF these Eskimos-even old Peter.
the boss hunter of the vllage-has some
white blood in lis veins, while the hand
soonest of the girls, ii dressed differently,
would pass for north of Europe immigrants
anywhere.
One might tell OF still other TEXTURES OF
rare interest to be found near the Cryoite
mine-of lofty Kungaut mountain, of the
glacier at the head OF the ford of the re-
mains OF the homes of the ancient European
people who came there about the year 1000,
but the curious in these matters have only to
geJ permit fl ON the Danish crown to visit
the land and charter whale ship Then, if
lucky, they can visit the ford and see for
themselves. Difficult and dangerous as such
voyage would be, it is sale to say that
tourists often go further and spend more
money for n small return than could be had
within the Arusk ford.