Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1902-11-16
" scarcity Of natives or

| driven away by scarcity Of natives Q!
| food
Il received the following reply: Tt Is
! not necessary for you to ask for medicine
in behalf OF the Eskimos. Any medicine
/ that ] can spare will be sent just as
quickly if you say outright that You #an'
| them for yourself. | Will releve your
anxiety about Ahn1adagibsu, BY saying
| that am not likely to press him into ser
vice. and you therefore will not be under
| the necessity of seeking a new host 1
an, rot interested in your movements, as
| long as you keep completely away from
! me and my stations
NO MEDICINE FOR ESKINIOS.
Rather than accept any medical ser
| vices for his Eskimos (although within a
stones throw of his door were the graves
Of seven of his party, who had died with
in a couple of months of his refusing my
medical services at Etah), Mr.. Peary
never sent any notice to me when this
man was afterward critically Ill IN his
service.
January IS I wrote: T will ask you to
sell me IS pounds biscuit, Il cans milk. 10
pounds coffee. 5 pounds tea pounds
bacon. small bag salt. few jars of beef
extract. Cut list or omit. If coffee
can be spared and not sugar. then coffee
alone The reply came: I regret that
I have 10 provisions to spare He sent
me some salt and -four. two-ounce jars
beef extract. I returned this. with a
note: You seem to have to figure very
close on provisions. / return the salt
You may need it
''March Z. l sent to Sabine from a visit
to the lower settlements TO ask for nedi-
cine for dying Eskimos. Mr.. Peary had
gone north the day before. The steward
refused the medicine. and would not allow
two natives i'll at the headquarters to be
trea ted Zone of whom died a little later).
saving he was under orders. l sledSed
! 49, miles. the entire trip and returned TO
fin. one ma tive dead and another died next
day From getting slightly wet on jour
ney during a forced march in a storm. i
went to bed i'll. Diarrhea ensued lasting
three months until I got a change OF
food from the whalers. / had some trou-
BILE two months in the fall
May 20. I went. TO Sabine to complete
the removal of my effects. Mr.. Peary
had returned. I was offered no entertain
ment, but directed to leave just as soon as
possible. which I did without sleeping
TRIBE Trimmed BY DEATH.
II felt that my responsibility to stay
1T Anoritok had ended. went $50 miles
90 Cape York hoping to get mail. via
w-4alers. They gave me generous supplies
was brought mail by the Wlndward. Au-
gust 3. I was given no supplies. Her re-
turn on August % was grateful, as twice
previously she had been frozen in and
detained all winter. 7 lived the year in
Eskimo huts, eating their. coarse. I'M
clcanly food. but returned to civilization
still enamored With the Arctic and in good
lealth and fine spirits. During the year
forty-five deaths Trimmed the tribe so that
only 1877 remained. One man was murder
cd, being suspected Of witchcraft, and one
boy was killed by man suffering from
ielirun or mania. Another boy was
badly stabbed in arm and side from same
cause. A number Of children were
strangled upon the death Of their mother.
In case of twins. both met the same fate,
because Of superstiious fears.
My motives for remaining north were
as pure as the driven snow. as plain as
A B C. and as noble as God ever gave
to man. They were simply that would
not leave men in the Arctic without a
chance for medical aid.
THE animosity exhibited in the endeavor
to brand men and bring me into disre-
pute. the refusing my unpaid salary on
such technical grounds. Mr.. Peary's al
most inhuman treatment OF me without
provocation during the last year, and his
threat to maroon me for fifth year on
the side of the charmed uninhabited by the
Eskinos at the expedition vessel taking
final leave II. was On the headquarters
side OF the channel when the ship arriv-
ed. -maketTea sons FOR nay resignation UNI
necessary. A discriminating public can
imagine all that y ,uldi exist. They would
entail g. long and to me, shameful story,
and shall never undergo the mort1noattpn