The evening world. [volume] (New York, N.Y.) 1887-1931, 1912-09-10
WHITE ESQU|MAUx
MAY Be NORSEMEN
LOST 500 YEARS
Natural History Museum Ex-
plorerS Find Traces in Arctic
of Traders of i4l1.
FOUR YEARS IN NORTH.
They Have Nineteen Speci-
mems of the Rare Barren
Ground Grizzly Bear.
FOUR YEARS IN NORTH.

SEATTLE. Sept 10. - vlhJalmar
etefansson. after spending more than
four years In Arctic exploration. has re-
turned 10 Seattle by steamer from
Nome. Alaska, bringing q story OF his
probable discovery OF the descendants
Of the Scandinavian coionists of Green
land. who were last heard of IN 1ti2.
and who when trade with Greenland
was resumed In the seventeenth CEN
tury had disappeared.
Stefansson and his companion, Or.
n. n. Anderson OF Forest City. Ia.
made . valuable geological and cthno-
logical collection. which In now on the
steam whaler Belvedere with DR.. An
derson, and will arrive in San Fran
CISCO the nrst wcck In November on tho
way to the American Museum Of Natu-
raj History, New York. stefansson will
leave for New York tonight
Stefansson reports DR.. Anderson In
perfect health. The Belvedere Is now
whaling on wrangsi Island. Siberia.
During more than four years Stefansson
ana Anderson we're together only nine
months. - they could cover more
ground by separating.
WENT TO UNINHABlTED COMO.
NATION GULF.
8tefansson and Anderson went TO the
Arctic In 1908 by way OF Winnipeg. Ed
monton and down the Mackenzie River
10 Its mouth. They were bound for
Coronation Gulf. . region marked on
Canadian maps as uninhabited. and
which they had been warned to avoid.
otsfanssoa spent the flrst winter at the
msuth OF Colvilis River. Alaska; the
second At Cape Parry. the third on
Coronation Gulf and Victoria Land. the
fourth at Cape Parry.
On leaving the Arctic no made 4 lei
surely journey alone with . dog team
from Caps Parry to Point harrow. 1.oot
miles,. visiting all the Esauimaux settle
March q and reached Point Barrow June
y. The expedition made its headquarters
f,e eoalsctinGk 1t Bailey Island. . resort
% whaling vessels east from the mouth
- ehs Mscksnxie Riesr. and here the
material gathered was placed on the
Dolveders. II will not b unpacked un-
~ It aryives u the New York museum.
4 1hs features Of the collection. from .
popular standpoint. are the skins.
okulls ana leg bonea Of ninsteen bar
esa ground srtssly bears ready for
Usuntins. Only one barren ground
er1s1iy beur n IN any museum. II %
supposed that bears Of two species
are In the collection.
BARREN GROUND GRIZZLY FATS
HiMeElP, THEN eLEEPe.
The barrsa ground srlxxly attalns q
weight OF 100 pounds. 1t lives on the
thick roots OF an herb. At tho APP
proach OF winter the bear. which has
taken on . four-inch layer of fat. bur-
rows hole IN . river bank and par
nits itself to be covered by snow.
Apparently the boar hibernates with
gut loss Of energy. for In April. whsu
h leaves its hole. the fat II still In
Sact. However, in April and May thare
y no fScd and the bear grows thin
before the herbs are obtainable In
June.
DR.. Anderson found pottery further
East than ever before known. ana also
grass BASKETS. OF the so-calied white
Eequimaux OF Coronation Gulf Stef-
onsson aid:
''They w,re taller than the Greenland
1oQuimaux. but not % tall AZ the Alaska
0o9uimaux. They spoke Esquimau.
though thought I detected some Morse
words. and they lived In the typical Els
Quimau way. l visited thirteen groups
Ct these people. who number probably
4ooo. and I cav LOO Of them. Tenof these
groups or tribes had never come into
contact with whites and had not even a
<Sa1itiea Of them. Two tribes had ira
11tiens Of the sir John Franklin expedi-
ton An old man In one tribe had seen
Richardson In lsls. and an old man IN
another tribe had seen Coliinson IN 1854