Charlevoix county herald., 1911-02-04

Inc Japanese are the worst OHend-
ers, and eight revenue cutters are
kept busy in those waters all the time,
keeping watch on them. They are ar
rested by the scores and the uniform
sentence Is 16 months Imprisonment,
fines and confiscation of the vessels
and all of their equipment, along with
whatever hides may be on board. The
vessels and the gear are sold by the
government, but the odd part about
the proceeding is that under the law
the skins must be destroyed. Why,
know of one vessel which was taken
with 800 pelts aboard, and under the
law these should be destroyed, al
though they are worth $40 each. The
court is holding them, however, in the
hope that some other arrangement can
be made about them. The fights that
the cutters used TO have with the Jap
anese smugglers and poachers are now
almost entirely thipg Of the past, al
though whenever a suspected vessel is
sighted it always takes a shot across
her bows to stop her. Resistance is
rare. however.
During our travels we saw many
sights that would rival any of the nat
ural attractions of the world. There
is a waterfall up there which is higher
than Niagara, though of course not
nearly so large, and a natural bridge
that is much finer than the one in
Kentucky. 1t is 175 feet high within
the arch and fully 600 outside. Up
around Bogoslov there is an area
about 60 miles in each direction which
Is virtually in the making 1t is in
state Of volcanic evolution. Look
at these two pictures. They show the
same scene, and one was taken two
weeks after the other. See the rocks
are twice as high In the second as
they were In the first. It's the same
way with the channels along the coast
here one day and there another
There are no charts, no lights, moth
ing of the sort, anywhere along the
coast, and navigation Is dangerous In
the extreme"
Lieut. Reinburg had hundreds OF
views of sights all over the polar seas.
One Is the photograph of an Eskimo
child, its face ravaged by cancer OF the
nose. The infant was operated on and
its life saved by the ships doctor, A.
d. Foster, at 20 degrees north latitude.
Give any disease up there In that cli-
mate half a chance, and It will cure
itself" declared Lieut.. Reinburg. An
other picture showed the whitened
bones and grinning skulls, mounted
upon platform (burial is unknown In
the frozen north), Of an expedition,
which, according to Eskimo tradition,
embarked on a search for the north
pole 80 years ago on a vessel known
as the Genie. Whence II started, or
who formed 1t, none knows, but its
end is known to all.
King and Queen Of "a People.
Cape Attu, the westernmost point
OF Uncle Sans dominions, contains
Just "a people" Lieut.. Reinburg went
on, but it has king and queen, Just
the same. King Philaretta and Queen
Maude, that was the best We could
make of their names. | bought one Of
the finest hand-woven baskets
ever saw for four dollars from Queen
Maude. in her regal hut. We tried to
determine to what race the Attuans
belong. in an effort to get evidence
to support the theory that the Mogo-
lians and Indian races merge insen-
sibly, through the Eskimo, as one
proceeds east from China. We were
unahle IN make anv decision though
as to how the Attuans might be call
ed. and Russian scientists are going
out with the next cutter to have a look
at them. We send out cutter there
every year and II brings the only .mai'
that reaches there.
1T would tahe dozen volumes to
tell of all of the experiences we went
through and of the strange sights we
saw. II certainly is a novel quarter
of the globe and well worth three
years of any ones life."