New-York tribune., 1901-09-29

people than they to u.s. Not that the captains
had been nggardly toward them-the luiluei'
knives, needles, thimbles, barrels ana pots 'ieS
had given the natives almost all gratuitously were
positive wealth TO them. The captains assured me
that they always stop TO give the natives rev
trihes.
Two days later the whaler Esquimau passed by
and her master. Captain Mackay the same who
discovered the relics of Bj6rlings expedition on the
Carey Islands). not behind his predecessors IN
kindness From him l obtained a large tarpaunn.
strucI good Sized tent an oar serving the ridge
pole l could now look forward in comfort to the
Ten weeks folio we'd which spent alone at Cape Cape
prised three large tents and two smaller ones in;
habited by fifteen persons s,esu tge and their
boy Irving 1t also gave shelter TO the Ihres
Publa; young man; h1vapns; giri Sl i'egn; ESQ
and Adekatya. boy OF about tSe w., Eeass; b 3ISo
if Tikengwa and Kayotas three boys TAU
tyengwa, Maksa and Kayoangwa IN the thlrd
tent lived an aged couple l %nG rauped ns by
Igia who, with his brother k9kong Was to have U
been driver 10 upernavk The smallest tent S o1
lived on the Charity of the others AngatibuahsuS
tent being too small 10 hold its seven inmates all
at one time. they took turns in sleeping, IN rainy
weather Of course they had to huddle together as
II did not lake me long ascertain good deal OF
hs hs amy @ Of T9 of 6sef se sma BEEN a
otas wife time previously and was the moth-
MaTa ~ is his neishbor Kayotas wife wrested
with him according to Esquimau custom and nav
ing oYerthrOwn him, away with his wlfe, Atah-
CANA leaving him instead his own wife Niwikeng;;
takng TAX e cSre Sne of his Children very aeconae ~
deed. / was Informed that Kayota expressed his
domen when 'y aS the conse bic
m9niT Esnnimans have met was very oah
talk about the subject may add lhat me, ai mdf
led me TO a board platform in the tween decks to
show his recovered wife Atangana sieepns @ IsI ne
exchange had beer effected peacetgi the tS u%S
rraa har hnd ,e to anu take back their former
The latter of course. had not been consulted
h., They hse be wo6q Sbg aahof
who is chief at Cape York;, .! don't know 49, ~, ne
have have laws with stret5sss which soms,lmss a5P
pears ecesseS Wifes sister bill in the British Paria
ment will md their position greatly strength thened
of of among 1SS the Esaamans In fact any relationship
whatever within their memory seems doa 20 9o oe pn4 n 10
very far back. or they could not marry al al for
ship II evident that the whole tribe tof some two
more than four five generations back.
On the maps the native name for Cape York Is
given as Imagen The real pronunciation OF this
word was for time puzzle to me. At first !
wrote IL Imnarne next Imnarene lmnagaEe, etc
Finally ascertaned that the puZzlng sound in the
second syllable a nasal. and that there Is a
nasal also at the end so that the true spelling
is Imnanganeng. 1t is derived from imna, meaning
steep rock face and refers TO the PERCEPTIONS
cliffs on the side of the cape above the stone
huts dglus). The point where the tents were To-
Gated is the southernmost projection of the cape
and bears the name Serwarmiun, meaning place OF
guillemots A little to the west of this is another
cape, Upengawihsoa from upenga, meaning spring
time-probaby so called because there the grass
grows earliest. When Ku Kong, Igia and went
there on May u to get grass for bedding found
the young sprouts peeping Justify from under the
gray punches Of the previous year. The location of
the various points is shown on the accompanying
sketch map which being drawn from memory.
makes no pretenson to accuracy.
Not long after returning from the last whaler the
Esquimaus moved their tents from SeTwarmun to
Imnanganeng for the reason that the ice near the
cape broke up. preventing them from catching seal
on the ice while near the head of the bay the ice
remained ht for sledging almost to the day the ship
arrived august 19. did not move with them be-
cause / expected that the ship would arrive soon
and / wished to have my baggage ready to be taken
aboard without delay. Assuming that she left
July l. ought to be at Cape York about July Is.
The Esqulmaus asked me almost every day: How
many sleeps before Pearys ship comes?" ! told
them the number, ana expected to gain great credit
among them when my prediction proved accurate.
Alas this turned out to be of those best laid
plans that gang aft agley."
Thus for about a month the sole inhabtant
of Cape York, the nearest human abodes being
about two miles away. Yet at night when ] lay
down 1 felt myself actually more secure than at
home In civilization: danger from fire explo-
sions, burglars riots, tornadoes lightning or wild
beasts; nothing but an earthquake could disturb
my security AS for the Esquimaus, / felt assured
that not only my life was absolutely among
them but also my property, so long as kept 1t in
sight on the other hand, felt equally certain that
If left my tent for any great length of time
diminished This prevented me from underta king
municating with Pearys ship felt that i must nHi,,
husband my supplies to last tin late In October
when might travel northward by sledge.
The only occasions when j remained away for
moved from their tents to Upengawihsoa to get
rock precipices above the tents and rambed over
the ice cap and the snow free plateau top. dor
there is particularly easy the point indi-
Gated by the second IN the word "estima ted" on
when on reaching the edge OF the plateau found
before me not wilderness OF bowlders such as /
dance between sharp crags, but nearly level plain
strewn with fine angular gravel (here and there
less former ice cap) as efficiently as BY steam
roller / was constantly struck by its close re-
a park or the metalied surface or a street before
the asphalt is laid on A few tracts. indeed
elods Of a pioughed field; elsewhere again, there
were rounded bowlders. Here and there / found
stones slightly raised above the surface inclosing
ring Of clay, slightly depressed (say three inchesJ
thought o. the giants kettles OF glacial geoI-
ogy but viii not venture TO say that the phe-
be conceived as produced by any but a circular
movement; hnt how circular movement, in other
surface is difficult TO imagine Some specialist
theory.
The ice cap in most places composed OF hard
snow, unyeiding 10 the foot anording very easy
walking. Occasionally the surface slushy. and
In some places the crust broke under me- Long