The Marion daily mirror. (Marion, Ohio) 1892-1912, 1908-03-07
TIBERIUS SMITH
Copyright, by Joseph B. Bowlcs3
His Encounter with Arctic Circle Giants
BY HUGH PENDEXTER

matte conditions. but also by sheer
avolrdurois. He had first learned Of
this oyergrown race, he continued,
from the lnnults. In fact. several Of
his freely rerspirng children, who
ought to have been In better business.
declared that they had met with stray
specimens While penetrating the far
north. liut II all the legends and stale
stories were true, our quarry would
not readily cat from our hands.
Yet the more he rambled. the more
Tbs eyes twinkled. and he was all
aglow TO learn more OF these museum
possibilities. Consequently. three ad.
ditiona hours found us in Philadelphia
in search of old saa.dogs, who prowl
about the Greenland waters yearly In
their cryOitc-ladaned barks. The mis-.
sionary had furnished us with the
name of one of this ilk. man who
was crude expert upon the aborig-
ines OF tho polar ice.eap. and who had
/ 'ecently returned to civilization. On
inding him, Tib easily managed to
make him talk, and the old salt startled
Is by declaring he had seen some OF
he GOliaths in a minlng settlement
ear lvigtut bay. He pictured them
Is being from seven to nine feet tall,
lut apologlzed for the former and ex.
ilalncd they probably had been i'm.
properly nutayed. lie believed they
celebrated their at homes In the
l,urplap-trnpF r,ofouo az tho ,,Iti,,o u,
lorth, and had rambled down to the
southwest coast because of terribly
severe storms ADD the subzero stunts
Jf the thermome.er.
"Tls was enough for my patron,
and another day SAW us in consulta.
lion with the mnin.s%ring of the cir
Gus. The upshCt was. we took passage
IN cryollte bark Immediately, bound
FOR the frostbltten, i3le.glrted coast of
lyigtut. Greenland, you know, is the
only spot on the map that yields cryo.
lite In commercial quantities, and a
company in the Keystone state enjoys
the exclusive privilege Of shipping the
stuff to the AmcHcal. We embarked
on one Of their boats 80 as not to at.
tract attention, for there were collec.
tors who kept close tabs on Tib-why,
Jenkins, collecting for n wild-animal
show, once traied us all through the
Congo district. realizing we were after
something good
while bounding over the pillows,
rib kept school and Informed me we
would arrive at lyigtut at the begin
Ming OF the summer season. when the
average mean temperature Is AZ de.
grees Fahrenheit for three months.
and whore the officials OF the Danish
government try to eradicate homesick.
ness by growing turnips, lettuce and
very small potatoes, mainly under
glass by the time We began TO be an.
noyed by the waters of Davis strait |
was so erammed fun of arctic lore that
| had TO step softly so as not to Jolt
any vital facts out of my system. That
was Tbs way; he never went into Il
strange place but what he was loaded.
AT Ivigtut we presented our ere,
dentlals to the agents, who sent us on
TO Godthaab. the capital of Danish
South Greenland. Here we were
shaken down for newspapers and any
information that didn't date back be.
yond the stohe age. But, ON the whole.
we We're handsomely treated by those
hol ling the reins of government over
this gigantic cold-storage plant; and
we quickly learned that the captains
yarn about the strange people was
within the truth zone, and that some
Of them had spent the long winter
months on the coast, Now they had
retreated up the flords into the in
terror, we were told. where in sheltered
places the mosses and Towering plants
have the nerve TO come forth In the
stingy sunshine Best of all, we were
supplied with some faithful Eskimos,
one of whom could do rough out.of
door work on the English language,
THE course we took largely evaded
The Ice and snow, yet we carried
along light sledge and bunch of