The San Francisco call., 1898-04-17
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 To these simple souls, dog-hke ln oeVo'lon S ferocios in their savagery when racial instincts rise upperrnost the Land of the White Man IS regiDn D of the incomprehensibe, where the eVdehce ol 'iie senses may not be believed. ,
 TeI them that the White Man darken the sun in high heaven drain the great dry to its utterost depths and lasso corner of the new moon she gdes through starry space ana & 1mey ar m,t. believe you Have they not seen things more Hle vicious than these come to pass in our strange eh- chanted world?
 MT. and Mrs. Hickey are guests at a downtown hotel, of G. F Tilton In private olnhg hIl room they sample thrice daily the Ane6ah a dans et es which they have been accustomed in the way tt Sl seal, walrus bear and whale au natural With plup- Der fish the side left over over from last years catch. they do not complain -four true
 They are learning very fast. are the Tckeys. Already they wield knife and fork With the customed to whackng refractory ice foes With oars jabbng harpoons into whales hide For al i noi9 at Point Hope their skin boat in search whales, the traders paying them in provisions ana clothing, and while the man pursues the monster, the woman who pulls a better stroke than ne, propels
 To their joy they have found unfamiliarly clean ts true but ice nevertheless, and during the long hot days just past the bell boys have been kept actively in between their apartments and the ice chest with pitchers klnk klinng along the route musical response to the three-bel summons at the
 Nor have these guileless wayfarers attempted to blow out the gas When they are ready to % dispense @ put out the fire" they call it in their tongue, for they know much word of any other
 As to their speech it is like nothing that we ordinarily hear It sounds as the incoherent stutter- a linotype machine nograph Translated, Hickey means ,.thmble' which which article the Esqumaux fashion out of Wairus tusk. Kunana is Morning Star" and the name Of thelr little in the Arctic signifies valley"
 Kunana is not a beauty, but there IS cer5an 5 picturesqueness in her uncorseted outlines ines ana a dumb kindiness in her face Across one cheek deep tells of past tragedy.
 In her youth Kunana was the wife or the cneI mel or her tribe, who one day laid her cheek open with knife when she dared to displease him. He sup murder her. Her old father appeared upon the domes tic and shot him dead
 Tick WOO, and having in the required of time Killed and trapped enough animals to prove himself good provider, her father consented to their union The rest of the tribe were called in to feast on the game and the bride her husbands dug-out to live happily after her chin enod hn three
 Their native costume is bulk but light in weight and of deerskin suitsone worn with the fur next the skin the other with the fur outside
 Kunana looks with unqualified dsapproval upon is the only compromise she can be induced to con sider Her hands are strong and penttfuly ringed, den somewhere twixt chin and waist is her beloved pipe with its curving stem made of wood, its bowl of brass, and its tobacco and match accessories
 It at Astoria that MT. Ttlton who speaks their language took his attendants for their first ride be- hind horses To them a horse is the White Mans dog" carriage and cable car his sled So little have they in their barren country with which to com pare the astonishing sights they see that the most they do is to exclaim and gestcuate Watching ther Varyng e3pIessons 9l GouteIance the peWlld- erment reflected there and the lmposs1blty of their minds gaining the feast clew to the kaleidoscope of mysteries surrounding them is entertainment for the onooker of kind.
 Fear they know not the meaning of, so implicit is their faith in MT Triton. If he should walk to the end of Fisherman's wharf drop into the bay and swim to Goat Island believe that there would be a him. And they would not regard the proceeding as all unusual in country where "sleds swoop down upon them in all directions without four-footed aid; where little houses, as they term elevators, dart dizzily skyward by invisible means where people drink water from totem poles-for such to them are the citys fountains; where searchlight hunts one out in the darkness in the twnkling of an where