New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-12-19

terial for the Esquimau at his maturity has only
Of ten, and has to be shepherded in almost every
phase Of life as children would need to be. Their
Fn nd the Of Rama IS Spoa
In the side of raised beach covered with Grass on
stones. and inside like burrows. From the back
beach facing the hutches one would never suspect
there were human beings near. except perhaps for
hole in the ground. Beyond the long narrow en-
trance. through which one has almost to crawl lies
wrecks, where that is possible to be got or other
Of the drift. or tunnel and the room being dug
down to the depth needed. The sides are walled
with stones to keep the sand from crum6ng in.
ard here the Esquimau and his family make their
permanent home.
REGION BARREN OF TREES.
The Esquimau does not eat three times day.
but rather when he get food. sometimes sorg-
Ing himself the whole day thoroughly when he has
it in plenty. and again going without it when his
larder is low. Food in winter is eaten raw, and
the oer the better; in summer. too, most of it is
consumed raw; but around the NIoravian station
houses the more civilized now boil or stew it in
summer. All firearms in addition to their
bone harpoons and the frames of their famous
kayaks were formerly made of bones also. but since
wood has become more obtalndDle II mas been
hotse az Nai he I,i3e, ero T +Lsix innhes IN
coast: and all the wood used by them has to be
brought TO the coast Hence thev do without
much fire or light, but in the day can
usually find sort of hollow basin of stone. half
full of seal oil. and with piece of moss floating
In it ard serving a wick. Last winter number
They had gone inland after caribou. and ran short
of gunpowder. Unable to kill anything, they had
already eaten all their dogs and then the dog
harness, and reduced to their last extremity
when they luckily met Hudson Bay factor hunt
ing with some helpers, and he fed them and re-
plenished their stock of ammunition For this
winter they have taken the precautior to kill a
number of walrus and lay in a stock of the meat.
which they have cached on the hillside where the
keen air of the early winter soon reduces il TO a
frozen mass, which Will keep in fair condition until
IT Is needed for the cOmmssariat.
Another cause of the dwndling numbers Of the
Esquimaus is the practice of showmen taking colo
MES of them to great exhibitions. and making
Esquimau villages features of the displays. This
first adopted at the Chicago Worlds Fair, and
continued down to the latest exposition. with
the result that the Esquimaus acquire tuberculosis
and other diseases and have infected many of their
neighborS returning. so that the physicians
foundland government has decided to put a stop
this practice in future. and forbid the removal
of any Esquimaus from Labrador for such pur-
pose, though they promised lavish pay
ment for their services it Is rarely that they re-
ceive anything like what they expect. In two in
and landed in st. Johns where, they claimed
to be penniless, the colonial authorities had to
care for them and send them to their homes.
The operations of disease and contact with the
white mans Vices diminishing their numbers
quickly enough already, without the process being
they beyond all prospect Of being made an
increasing factor in the future OF Labrador now
that it is becoming a centre for progress and de-
velopment-