Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1912-09-12
FINDS
RACE LOST FOR
800 YEARS
Professor Stefansson Travels
in Arctic Regions Among
Red-Haired People.

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in importance from an chronological
standpoint to the discovery of the lost
tribes of Israel is the discovery made
by Professor Vilhjalmar Stefansson,. of
the American Museum of Natural His
tory, of the lost tribe of 1000 white
people. They are believed to be direct
descendants from the followers of Lief
Erickson, who came to Greenland from
Iceland about the year 1000, and a few
years later discovered the north coast
of America These people are living
on Victoria Island. so degrees east OF
the mouth of the Mackenzie river ana
more than 1000 miles by the coast line
and arc still in the Stone Age. While
the civilization of nearly 1909 years
has passed they have stood still. Pro-
fessor Stefansson who left New York
city in 1908 on his trip, has just arrived
in Seattle.
One of the remarka bic incidents Of
the five years exploration which Stef-
ansson carried ON is the fact that he
left his winter headquarters in Banks
Land four years ago With sufficient
-four and other cereals to sustain him
self and his Eskimo associates for two
weeks, and enough salt and tea to last
four weeks. With this scant supply of
food he lived for four years on the
bleak inhospitable shores of the Polar
sea. Caribou, seal and bear furnished
him food and clothes.
Discovers Thirteen New Tribes.
During his travels about the region
a the top of the world Stefansson dis
covered thirteen new tribes of people,
Ten of these tribes had never seen OF
! heard of white men. The progenitors
| of two other tribes had seen the mem
bers of the Franklin exploring expedi-
ton, and one tribe had once been Wis
tied by a Whaling vessel.
| The tribe OF White people which
| Stefansson declares are purely of Nor
Wegian origin. never had seen other
| persons of their own color. Their num-
Der cf about 1000. and more than
| half of them have rusty red hair, blue
! eyes, fair skins and tow colored eye
| broWs and boards, They live on both
shores of Coronation gulf. on the main
| land of North America and Victoria
island, which formerly was. known as
| Prince Edward island
1t was for these people that Raold
Amundsen, discoverer of the south pole
searched While making his celebrated
trip through the northwest passage
! Amundsen. it viii be remembered
stated that natives had told him of a
race of white people living to the north
ward, but he was unable to find them
Ethnoogically.f they are entirely diff
| ferent from ne Eskimo not only in the
shape of the skull but in general fea-
| lures color of eyes and texture of
hair There is not d single trace OF
! the Monaghan type in them. While they
retain but few of the customs of the
| Norsemen who were lost from Iceland
| in the twelfth century. their method of
life is entirely different.
They Use Copper Knives.
The conditions under which they live
are the most primitive. No vegetation
except moss and few stunted willows
grow in their habitatiou They are meat
and fish eaters. pure and simple The
| islands abound with caribou and the
sea with seal. They use bows made of
| willow sticks, bound together with sin
| CIV, and their arrows are tipped with
| flint and native copper. which is priad
out Of lodges or found in stream beds
on the mainland Their knives also are
made of copper, with horn handles, and
made in much the same manner as
these implements We're made by the
early Norsemen who inha bited Green
land, Like nearly every savage tribe.
| thy have legend of a flood which Il
| long time ago devastated the world.
They still use the same kind of bone
needles that We're invented by their
forefathers, and many of their methods
of life are somewhat similar to those of
their progenitors.
They are a migratory people. never
remaining longer than a few weeks in
the same place. When they moved
Steffansson and his associates moved
with them. They never live on the
coast and it was for this reason that
Amundsen failed to discover them
when he sailed by their island. In the
winter time they settle on the ice in
XIV ''li''i VI q Dst%, W mere IlfN lunt
seal. In the summer time they go to
the center of the island, where they
hunt the caribou.
Wear Swallow Tail Coats.
Their houses are made Of snow for
the walls and roof is stretched over
the top by means of small pieces Of
driftWood, which on rare occasions are
found on the coast. These stray fEag-
ments of wood are highly priced Furs
furnish their clothing. Their shoes are
cut to come well up the thighs, where
they are met by kind of underskirt
which reaches to the waist The coat
is fashioned in precisely the same man
ner as the swallow tailed or full dress
coat The whole outfit is held together
by means of the thongs and buttons
made from rawhide and bone There
are no Walrus in that region
None Of the natives had ever seen
match or a rifle.
During five years Stefansson's rifle
brought down nearly 90 tons of meat.
He mapped large portion of the coun-