The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-11-08
FURTHEsT WEST.
Americas Extreme Western Point and

Americas Extreme Western Point and
 the People Who Live There.
 The most western point of the Ameri- can continent is bold granite noun tain 2.5OO feet high, very abrupt on the sea side and gloping gently toward the interior.
 From this mountain one can see a long stretch of the mainland of Siberia. The American point is Cape Prince of Wales. That on the Siberian coast is East Cape.
 The string of islands running between the two leaves only fourteen miles of open sea between them, The passage is not a difficult 5ne and is often made in a few hours in the open skin boats of the Esquimaux, who inhabit both coats. Every winter it is possible to cross on the ice.
 Cape Prince uf Wales has the reputa- tion of being the most indictment place in the world. But the very elements combine in making it one of the great hunting places of the Arctic regions. The whale, walrus, bear and seal, fol- lowing the ice south in the fall and north in the spring, pass through this comparatively narrow channel. This accounts for the Cape having one of the largest Esquimau settle ments on the Arctic coast. The Cape village is the celaring house for a large region. Furs come from far up the Yukon and the interior to be exchanged for Siberian reindeer skins. The natives are heavy, strong of arm and back and very light on their feet. They are short legged but very fleet footed and great jumpters. They be- gin to practise jumping as soon as they can walk.
 Their favorite way of jumping is to spring up and kick with the toes of both feet and come down again on their feet. Many of them can in this way touch a point from twelve to thtr- ty inches above their heads.
 In look they resemble the Japanese far more than the Chinese, says the Southern Workman, but they are lighter in complexion and very ruddy faced. The girls and young women are good looking; some are handsome. Their eyes are a clear brown and very bright and their eyesight is marvellous.
 Their food is what the sea produces seal, Walrus, and fish. The hair seal is the most useful. It furnishes the skin for footwear, mittens, trousers material for nets, ropes and bags for oil,
 ! The flesh is used for food; the blub- ber which is the largest part of the seal, furnishes oil for food light anC heat. The quantity of seals to be un- | limited Unlike the fur seals the hail /! seal never comes ashore. It is captured in nets and when the ice forms it is i sho;.
 i The walEus furnishes the covering foi the big canoes and also for the houses and makes the heavy ropes. The fiesf is stored on scaffolds where the natives cache most of their supplies.
 At all seasons of the year there is ar ] abundance of fish, Every river with i salmon, grayling and trout. All wintel tomcod and founders are caught, The EsquimauX dryilarge quantities in the i summer but their favorite food is al ways fresh meat or fish.
 This fresh food supply accounts fol the remarable heafth of the people Scrofula and tuberculosis are not com mon The excessive meat diet ofter produces scurty, but in a mild form Hunting and travelling in the extreme cold and wet bring on rheumatism and many are crippled from it and by ac cidents. It cannot he said that the! are a long lived people.
 In temperance mt they arc eXcitabl' ond emotional, fun loving, happy anC sociable The hard conditions unde which they live do not seem to mak' them gloomy or morose; they are al ways cheerful and they joke with on, another necessarily.
 Morally they are above the average of native people, They respect pr2per i ty rights, and stealing is not common Their marriage relations are very loose Polygamy is not common, but the! break off marriage relations and mak, new ones with little reason and with out disturbing the peace of the com muntiy,