Evening capital. (Annapolis, Md.) 1884-1910, 1905-04-27

ExlLEs OF THE NORTH.
White Men Along Cumberland Sound
Where News Is Two Years Old.

White Men Along Cumperiano Sou"af
Where News Is Two Years Old.
Probably the last white man TO hear
Of the death of Pope Leo viii be the
Rev. James Peck. an Anglican mis-
sionary laboring among the Esquimaus
in Cumberland Sound, an inlet on the
vast UNEMPLOYED area north of Hudson
Bay. He did not learn of the death OF
Queen Victoria for eighteen months
after It's occurrence, when storm
tossed whaler entered the region and
impaired to him the news in July,
1902. This devoted cleric has estab-
lished himself in that far-of country
in order to bring to the pagan Esqui-
maus the blessings of the Christian
faith; but the extreme to which man
will go in the pursuit of wealth are
illustrated by the fact that there are
two whaling stations in the same re-
gion, the principals of which, a Ger
man and a Scotchman. have been
thirty and twenty-seyen years there,
respectively, without once leaving.
Cumberland Sound is $50 miles
north of Hudson Strait, and is one OF
the most desoiate, cherries regions
I'm the world. Two whaling stations
are established there, at Kekkerton
and Blackhead, and the fishing is done
by the Esquimaus. These, through
intercourse with civilized men and the
use of civilized weapons, have quite
lost their native art of killing the levi
fLn v.rtr,afffva no NJ
bone and flint which their ancestors
hurled with stout arms from sealslxin
kayaks, firing out the great creatures
by inflated skin buoys attached to
ropes Of walrus hide.
Instead, the Esquimaus of to-day
pursue the hunt after the civilized
fashion-in stout wooden boats, with
steel harpoons and lines of hemp
and the industry pays chiefly because
such labor is so cheap being paid for
| In goods and necessaries of life. As
| has been the experience with aborig-
Inal races elsewhere, the Esquimau
| can no longer return to his primitive
| condition of existence. He would GER
| tainly starye if he did, and, therefore,
he must rely on the white man, TO
whom he becomes a DEPENDENT
slave, indeed, in all but the name.
At Kekkerton the factor Is Mr.,
Mulch, a Scotchman, who for twenty
seven years has remained welded to
his solitary existence. The Blackhead
station is controlled by Mr.. Sheridan
German. who has been thirty years
there. Both have anna ssed considera
BILE wealth, but evlnce no inclination
to return to the outer world, with al
the marvels Of science and art which
have marked the advancement of the
1 1~s% ss~-.s-otis,v.4 Envars, two years Z
whaling steamer from Scotland visits
them. bringing supplies for them and
their Esquimau followers and remov
ing the stocks Of whale oil, whalebone
hides, ivory and other articles of trade
accumulated in the meantime.
With these self-exiled settler.
money has no meaning. Everything
is done by barter: every service PAID
for with fragment of iron or a pound
of biscuit. The profits of the venture
go to the credit of their accounts IL
Aberdeen, where the products are
marketed, and, possibly, when beyond
their labor, these two recluses may
make their way back to civilization
to mourn the lost advantages they are
now too old to enjoy.
They live in frame houses, the onl!
ones besides the clergyman's in tina
| nnrtharn land Thav faro IN oapnaf
foods, eked out with venison from thu
musk OK of the interior or steak from
the whales captured. by no mean
unappetizing dish. But they are no
averse to the raw seal, bear and wal
rus which Esquimaus affect for n,
man can maitain his strength more
than a season or two in that latitude
without consuming large quantities o
raw fat meat.-Montreal Star.