The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1901-02-13

and i'm many parts of the territory there
is not wood enough for smudEe fire i'm
al Eskimo igloo- Even "a native is
sometimes cold.
Next to the census taker Of the Kus-
kOkWlm the enumeTatOr assigned to BeT-
ing sea Islands had the most interesting
eApeI Cences. Here was less destiJutiOn
but at two or three points the natives
were i'll and many Of them had died. At
KING island, a mere dot on the map, con-
slstlng OF steep rock less than a mile In
circumference rising up out of the sea Il
few niles south OF Eering strait, the reVe-
nue. cutter Gear, with the census emu
meratOr on board called early in July.
The work was not completed at that
time, and the vessel called again in Au-
gust At that time not a living soul was
to be found on the island.
The dogs belonging TO the little Esd-
mo settlement on the side Of the cliff
were there, and so were more than TWEEN
~ bodies of EskimOs, lying about near
the doors of dwellings and in out-Of-the-
way places up the preclpltous hillside;
The living had all gone TO the mainland
TO trade When the vessel made a third
call in. September the inhabitants had re-
turned and the enumeration was made
l. was found that about l35 souls lived on
this little island in a state of miserable
The enumeration in this case was the
surgeon of the Bear. 1t WAS found that
most of the sickness was measles, ana
in many cases THIS maiady, comDlned Win
the condition Of poor nOuriShment round
al almost aR of these settlements was
severe enough to cause death.
Its a curious fact that among the
names Of those on the census rolls this
wear for St Lawrence. King and the
other Rering sea islands We're fer cor
respond with the names reported from
the same places by the census taker In
1893. DR.. Hawiey. this years enUmerator.
explained that this might be because or
the free and easy method Wnlle men
have of spelling Eskimo names, DuJ NE
doubted is very many of the natives who
were on these islands ten years ago are
there now. They are not uOmd Qlc, Dut
there is naturally some moving ABOUT
from place TO place. and it is "a sad TACT
that a considerable percentage OF the rs
kimO population dies off every year;
of his age the Eskimo knows absolutely
nothing He has no conception OF Hl-
bers above five or six, and the only way
he can indicate the number even OF con-
crete things is TO group them ana repre-
sent them by some tanllar group on oI'-7
iects. One might suppose that they would
be able to indicate their age by specifying
a certain number of summers or winters,
but this is not the case, although they
are far from being an ignorant people
considering their limited contact WIN
civilized men. t--. -t,,.
80 of sing, mid way ~ tw en- cape TT no
of Wales and East Cape, Siberia, IN Ser
ing strait. a few natives We're 1ouuQ-
rT'sese F1sixir0os are constantly going BACK
and forth between their ISLANDS ana tllt
American mainland, where they stSsutldtt
with the natives under the luleld6e on
Mr.. Lopp the progressive mlsSiouiaLS 60
Cane Prince of Wales IneN aiSo -
over to Bid Diomed. Immediately west,
and espCeraphfcaIy within the dominion
of the car of Russia, making their visits
i'm Oumiakc and kayaks in summer anu Vh
the ice in winter