Albuquerque morning journal. [volume] (Albuquerque, N.M.) 1903-1926, 1912-09-10

tBy Morning Journal special Leased wire
Seattle, Sept. 9.--vilsjalmar Stef-
unnsson. after spending more than
four years in Arctic exploration. re-
turned to Seattle today by steamer
from Nome, Alaska, and told of his
probable discovery Of the descen-
dants Of the scandinavian colonists
Of Greenland VINO were last heard Of
in 14l2. and who. when trade with
Greenland was resumed in the seven
teenth century, had disappeared.
Stefannsson and his companion,
DR.. X. NJ. Anderson, OF Forest City,
Iowa, made Il valuable geological and
chronological collection which is now
On the steam whaler Bclvedcre with
DR.. Anderson and win arrive In San
Francisco the first week in November
on the way tp the American museum
Of natural history. New York.
The Belvedere lis now wnafing OFF
Wrangcl Island, Siberia. During
more than four years, Stefannsson
nine months, as they could cover
more ground by separating.
Stefannsson and Anderson went to
The Arctic in 1908 by way of Winni-
peg, Edmonton, and down the Mack
cnzlc river to its mouth They
were bound for Coronation Gulf, a
region marked in red on Canadian
maps (uninhabted), and which they
had been warned to avoid. Steffann-
sson spent the first winter at the
mouth Of Colville river. Alaska, the
second at Cape Parry; the third at
Coronation Gulf ana Victoria Land.
tho fourth at Cape Parry.
On leaving the Arctic, he made Il
lcsurcly Journey with dog team
from Cape Parry to Point Barrow,
Loco miles, visiting all the Eskimo
settlements along the coast. He left
Cape Parry March 22nd and reached
Point Barrow June 18th.
The feature of the Arctic collec-
lion, from a popular standpoint, are
the skins. skulls and leg bones of
nineteen barren ground grizzly bears,
ready for mounting. Only one barreni
ground grizzly is in any museum. 1t
are in the collection.
Th" barren ground grizzly attains q
weight of 700 pounds. 1t lives on the
tnick roots Of an herb. At the APP
proaeh Of winter the bear. which has
taken on four inch layer of fat
burrows hole in a river bank and
permits itself to be covered by snow.
Apparently the bear hibernates with
"ut loss of energy. for in April. when
y leaves its hole, the fat is still in
"ct However. in April and Mayl
'hcre is no food and the bear grows /;
INN before roots are obtainable in /,
June Stefannsson found pottery
larthcr east than ever before known ,
and also grass baskets.
OF the so-calied white Eskmos of
coronation Gulf. Stefannsson said:
They We're taller than the Green
eihd Eskimos but not so tall as the
Aiaska Eskimo. They spoke Eski- [
mo- though thought detected some
Morse words and they lived in the
"picai Eskimo way. ! visited thir-
'cen groups of these people, who
number probably 1000 and saw
i'ooo of them. Ten of these groups
vi tribes lad never come into con-
'act with whites and had not even 4
tradition of them Two tribes had !,
"adltions cf the Sir John franklin
,Npedition. An old man in one tribe
'au seen Richardson in lS4S. and an
ou man In another tribe had seen c
o''inson in 1858. The thirteenth G
"'"e mad been visited by whalers.
between the country of the blonde
.-SA''nos and the Mackenzie is bar =
''" strip 900 miles wide which is
ever crossed by Eskimos. The Eski-
',os west of the strip have no knowl- :
sr ot Eskimos to the east. Those !,
~ the east know there are western =, -
a~. shinos. but believe them savage :,
cannibals d
MUSK OK, polar bear and seals M
abundant. and the blonde Eski-
o> I'VE well. Many Of them have 81
as blue as my own. and very W
,.'noe eye brows as the rule. A
sra' many have sandy boards. Thevl e,
r,s n" tradition Of their ancestry. n,
''ctoria Land are a number oil N