New-York tribune., 1902-03-02
-.-- =. q and put the rest away-fOr living. a. h.

saia, =. che future Of this most norther,y
What S IL oDr ~ race? The question may be looked at
from two standgoi5nt World t As for the Esquimaus
tAat n T,tIe viii suffice to make them very happy.
FL5 FL5 Ind iron to build their sledges and tents and
~ fashion their hunting gear IL Is tooGhhg ing 10 Sc
: lA9 boosyd or an iron rod The comparative album
dance % % SET uD decent housekeeping, and should
serS .ssS be once more dearth in this respect they
mrbaIeribs now. which formerly. in a manner, sup
lied the lack Of wood, Tor me |hlte ; men nave
hars would enable them TO get from place TO place
esy e-- confined to a small radius around their
- compelled to make the terrible journey overland
W small frame houses. dry and warm. with clean
bedding and plenty Of warm water ana soap would
I've none whatever. and the comforts of their
@ ina5e0uate in illness rheumatism and ophthal-
mia are their Troublesome ailments; They are
also subject to severe ano often fatal influenza
which seems largely I dqs TO sag 6a brought g51 by
men men Of Esqulrnau hyperbole.
TheTe IS from he standpoint of anthropoogy as
his little northernmost tribe Of men. They are
ms Of the Esquimau race, so anomalous in many
nsrs.ts-n its hal along the arctic shores FAR
rom ary other human beings; the high develop
rnert of It's arts under the most unfavorable sur
Toundings: its long heads contrasted with the
the cast OF countenance is decidedly Monaghan; its
musical gift so decidedly European. as contrasted
with the music OF many races suppose, to stand
while yet the altruisuc instinct seems feeble:
Whence came they? Who are their nearest kin?
from Asia acquired their arctic habits in Alaska
and then spread eastward TO the American archi-
period The fact that the barren ground bear.
known TO the Alaskan natives by the name Of
acak IS also known TO northern tribe under
4glt with the po,ar bear. would point to a western
10 nTt5in we're II NOT known tbat there has been
recent communication between Smiths Sound and
Certain resemblances have been pointed ont he
tween the Esqumaus and the prehistoric Europeans
have found their way TO Greenland by the former
land c2EnecJion which has to be assumed to S. eX-
.heory Of course would disregard the well authen-
no inhahitants in Greenland and it would also re-
main 10 be explained why there Esquimau
rich field IN comparing the Fsouimau with Aryan
languages. Here a few examples: Ingneng
nadat: tamna (this). Russian tam Ohere) But
Is utterly inconcefvable.
II these interesting questions are to be solved it
the living material on which alone the observa-
most Esquimau tribe Is practically the only one
10 the contrary that I was able to notice were two
small hafhreed children and old woman.
was Of u1rnistaab BE blush gray The protTacted
say Of ship near the native settlements i9voy-
tives IS 10 be deprecated. No regulations In this
taken under government protection. At present
they literally anarchists. having no government
whatever. Though the whole of Greenland is gen
orally regarded as a Danish possession, yet the
Danes disclaim any control north Of latitude "a
The natives themselves have not the slightest no.
ton that they have a prior claim on the land or
m recent years shown a decided interest in the
cause OF science. and it seems not altogether alb
hroantaria1 purposes take the land on both sides
OF Smiths Sound under its control.
Great Britain and Denmark would have 10 be
fSt The % DaGs oyeTnmeB{ Would be only too
gla hands
the sake Of the natives II is TO be hoped that no
mineral wealth VIII ever be discovered north OF
tntrusted to a scientific institution. not to com
Inercial company, whose OBJECT TouLl pe mercy
10 fleece them In order TO remain valuable sub
supporting they ought 10 he LETT as nuc!l as pcs
si6le in their present condition, except IN so Tar
ii - So,iS efa15 Io+eToot5 in hand watch
up at Cape York occupied by two, three or our
White men, preferably married The whaling steam
touching at Cape York every year would pre-
@ saPs G anRRs SRy n along @
that shore would be subject to the goYeIrnnFent
tion. No hunting would be allowed except by spe-
be plentiful IN those waters might perhaps be in
duced 70 return TO Whale Sound. The reindeer,
Wolstenholme Sound, ought 10 be protected every
where outside these two localities. The musk OK
troduced from Ellesmere Land only fifty miles
soyirse ZooiogicaI parks ali over the world might
thus be readily supplied with specimens OF this
unique animal
10 that Of Danish Greenland, Is yet sufficiently dis
rirct to be unintelligible TO EsQuimaus or other
dialects II has never been studied in detail; the
Few words that have been recorded have been writ
ten in haphazard imitation Of English spelling,
confessedy the worst il the world J tried my best
10 analyze the sounds OF their language and devise
are still doubtful The ancient traditions, beliefs
ana usaCes are vanishing with the old people; the
Younger ones infected by the example Of the white
men pay less attention 70 these tales Of o.den
government protection objects Of study II should
be done q