Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1909-09-24
THE REAL EsoUlMAU.
Description of People Who Helped to
Discover the North Pole,

Discover the North Pole.
The New York Press has an article
giving some facts about the men who
made 1t possible to reach the pole
the real Esquimaux. Following are a
few extracts from the article in the
Press that will doubtless be Of inter-
est to the reader who is searching
for north pole information:
THE Esquimaux are the filthiest
people in the world. They never wash,
not even face and hands. The smell
Of their fur clothing and secretions
from the skin causes a stink about
their persons, and especially in their
igloos and tents, that Is unbearable to
tenderfeet.
Living in huts Of stone or ice in
winter, in sealskin tents in summer,
Esquimaux never marry In the sense
we use this word, but mate like ami
mails. Swapping Of mates for an in
definite time is common. Furs are
used for the common family bed, and
everybody from father to babe strips
stark naked before retiring.
"Esquimaux are all children, con-
tented, peaceable, honest and hospita-
BILE, without rules and without ambi-
tion for fame or power. They live al
most entirely on raw animal food.
and this explains the absence Of q
number Of diseases which are COM
mon to civilization. Salt water con-
tains iodin, and all sea animals as
we'll as all who eat them uncooked,
absorb more or less Of this pickle
chemical substance.
"Scurvy so common and deadly
among early Polar explorers, is total
ly unknown among Esquimaux who
eat raw meat. This iodized raw food
also explains the absence Of enlarged
tonsils, glands and goiter. Their per-
feet, splendid teeth and strong lower
jaws mark them completely carnivor-
GUS. The exclusion Of vegetable food
has shortened their intestine, and in
digestion Is unknown. One would
suppose their pure flesh diet, would
cause biliousness, ETC., but the large
percentage Of oil in their food acts as
a gentle laxative and protects against
all harm. The Esk eats with relish
old rotten blubber that would stag
ger a buzzard.
"Esks' skin, though covered witn
filth and vermin, Ia smooth as satin
and totally free Of disease or blemish.
The very fact that these people fear
and hate washing in water may
account for their fine Arctic skins.
Exposure Of hair to midnight sun for
three months Of the year favors hair
growth. Badness Is unknown, and
even time seldom bleaches the hair to
gray, and at go 1t is still real black.
Their special senses are very keen
and eyesight seems undiminished by
age. Consumption is unknown, nor Is
there any skin or bone form Of tuber-
culosis. But when brought to the
United States they contract consump-
ton in most virulent form, OF six
brought to New York all contracted
the disease In less than six months.
One who returned to his Arctic home
made a quick cure.
1T is well known that the long Arc
tic winter, with its depressing effects
on body and mind, often. upsets the
best balanced nervous system, ever
Of the native. But this hysteria var
ishes with the summer. Explorers
have suffered in the same way, and
two have committed suicide. In sum-
mer Esks get so full-blooded that
nose bleeding Is very common.
"All degenerative diseases that cause
so much suffering and death in civili-
alton are absent from the Esquimau.
No arteriosclerosic, Bright's disease,
cirrhosis, diabetes, cataract. The pure,
sterile Arctic air contains no germs,
but Esks invariably take a bad ship
cold when they go aboard white mans
ships"
More Esquimaux are killed every
year hunting the walrus than die Of
natural causes These people have no
doctors and none of the remedies that
are common among civilized people
are known there.-Chattanoos News.