The daily morning journal and courier., 1906-01-09

F1oe in . Blizzart--Life in Esquimau
 Snow House.
 After being an exile in the Arctic regions six years, George G. Cleveland of Martha's Vineyard is in this city says a New Bedford correspondent of the Boston Herald, and will leave for his home tomorrow morning. In 1899 Cleveland went north as second mate of the schooner Francis Allyn, and the first winter he spent on board that craft. but for the following five years he has lived ashore.
 For the first two winters after he left the Allyn he had white com panion, Charles Slemmons, but for three years succeeding he cast his lot with the native Esquimaux, and had it not been for them he would have starved. For three years he saw the face of no white man, and says he almost forgot the white mans language.
 Many day I had to be satisfied with one meal, and oftentimes I was obliged to eat the paunches of deer or starve, he said. He lived the primitive life of the natives for much of the time. In dress and style of living he was one of the tribe, whose chief purpose is to obtain their daily food from the animal life of their black and inhospitable Mountry. During his spell of primitive Ilfte the whaleman underwent hardships land trying experiences that have, in his < own words, added ten years to his life.
 Cleveland had agreed to take charge of whaling and trading station in the Hudson Bay country, and after spend ing a year on the schooner he was put ashore at the mouth of Wager River, half way between Fullerton and Re- pulse Bay, and some little distance up the river he built hut or shack of matched boards, "A by IF feet.
 Clemmons Joined Cleveland in the fall of 1900, and the two men made them selves comfortable for the winter in a house banked up with snow, and the time was passed in hunting when the weather was suitable They had plenty of coal and did not suffer. Twice dur ing the time Clemmons was with Cleve- land they were caught in ice foes and once were reduced to eating roots | ing one of the dogs when bear was shot, which gave them enough food to last until the schooner Era was reach cd when supply of food was obtained.
 After these rather trying experiences Clemmons left me, and decided to try my luck alone" said Cleveland. T had some provisions left but the stories that have been told that the whalers put what provisions they could spare on board my boats is all bosh. I was left with hardly any food, and it was not long before that was gone.
 Tt was a case of getting among the Esquimaux or starve, and I made for the Iwillick tribe. I found the tribe and was taken among them as one of --4heir own natives. had nothing but a few necessities and my two boats. was not better than they were and did not try to be. I was glad to have somebody to try to help me get food.
 "Starvation staring one in the face is not pleasant and it took us all the time to get food For days I had only one meal g. day, and we often ate meat that in other circumstances would have been given to the dogs.
 For three years I never saw white man. dressed, ate the same food and 9 lived in the same snow houses as the natives, and you would not have known whether I was a white man or an Esquimau. I lived entirely on animal food, and for three years did not have tea coffee, biscuits or similar provi- sions.
 II was with a tribe of about three hundred persons, and took part in all their wanderings, and often shifted our abodes, going where the game was most plentiful. In the summer time we went to the coast after walrus and seal which were secured in fair abundance. In the summer, when moss and heather could be obtained, our food was cooked, In the winter this could not be done, and the flesh, which was often in a rancid state, had to be eaten raw.
 ''The daily search of the daily meal is the be-all and the end-all of the Esquimau's existence. The country of the Iwillick is bare and bleak, and When on the great track for food no clump of trees or shrubs offered their shelter to our half-famished hunters
 At the beginning of the winter our eribe divided and went out in different parties to hunt. When it was possible dogs were used to haul our sledges, but when no dog teams were to be had we had to haul the sleds ourselves. Ere quently long and toilsome stretches in- tervened between the spells of luck. When no game was obtainable we journeyed on, but when deer fell to our rifles we had a regal feast.
 vt often happened that we were overtaken by blizzards, but you cannot get lost up there. Whenever the storm broke we began to build our snow houses, and I became as expert as any of the natives at this business On one occasion, with the aid of two natives, I erected a comfortable house in forty minutes.
 "You cannot boss the Esquimaux. They simply won't have it, unless you have plenty of goods to trade with them, and then you can be the master. But going among them, as l did, I found that the natives didn't propose to have me tell them how to do things, and I was glad enough to fall into their ways, even to eating rancid fish. could do nothing else, and the Lord