Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1912-09-28

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Seattle describes - very of
tribe of white peg have bee
lost.
On his arrival other day a
Seattle, after ing exploring tri
in the far mo- "a, reported the discov
cry on Victoria Island, 80 degrees
Mackenzie river, of tribe of peopl
who have been lost, it is believe,
for several centuries and are Twin,
as did the people of the stone age
There are about two thousand of then
and they are thought to be direct de
scendants of Lief Erickson, whit
went from Iceland to Greenland ant
probably discovered the north c,,as
of North America. Professor Stefan
son left New York for the Arctic
regions in 1908 and made many eth
biological discoveries in addition t.
the strange tribe.
We read in the New York Sun:
In his trips around the region al
the top of the world Stefanson dis
covered thirteen new tribes. Ten OF
these tribes had never seen or heard
of white men. Two other tribes had
seen the members of the Franklin
exploring expedition.
The tribe of white people, whom
Stefanson declares are purely OF
Norwegian origin, never had seen any
other people of their own color. Their
number is about 2,000 More than
half of them have red hair, blue eyes
fair skins and light eyebrows and
boards. They live On both shores
of Coronation Gulf, on the mainland
of North America and Victoria Is
land, which was formerly known as
Prince Edward Island.
1t was for this people that Roal
Amundsen discoverer of the South
Pole, searched while making his way
through the northwest passage.
Ethnologically, the new discovered
tribe is entirely different from the
eskimos, not only in the shape OF
the skull, but in general features,
color of eyes, and texture of hair.
They have not a single trace of the
Monaghan type.
While they retain some of the Gus
toms of the Norsemen who were lost
from Iceland in the twelfth century,
their method of living is entirely diff
ferent. The conditions under which
they live are of the most primitive
sort No vegetation, except moss
and a few stunted willows, grows in
their habitat
They are meat and fish eaters.
The island abounds with caribou and
the sea with seal and other fauna.
They use bows made of willow bound
together with sinews, and their ar
rows are tipped with flint and ma
tive copper, which is pried out OF
lodges or found in the stream beds
On the mainland. Their knives are
made of copper, with horn handles,
and made in much the same manner
as implements were made by the
early Norsemen who inhabited Green
land.
Professor Stefanson accounts for
their existance by the fact that in
the year 9S2 Greenland was discov-
cred and settled by 5000 Icelanders.
One thousand people sailed from Nor
way and missed Greenland but landed
on the coast of Newfoundland, where
they established colony, built four
teen churches, two monasterles, a
nunnery and other structures, the
ruins of which are still standing.
These people crossed to the coast
of America for timber. There were
no Eskimo at this time, either in
Greenland or Newfoundland. The
Norsemen settled in two colonies, one
on the north the other on the south
side of Newfoundland.
In the fourteenth century Eskimos
came from the north and exterminat-
ed the north settlement. Their re-
cord was complete till 1441, when the
Black Plague scourged Europe and
for two centuries communication be-
tween Newfoundland and the Old
country was cut off.
When communication was restored
the people of the settlement were
missing. Their graveyards, build
ings. and other adjuncts of their
standardization were found. The
theory was formed that the people
had drifted to a settlement further
west, across the narrow straits, wher