Newark evening star and Newark advertiser. [volume] (Newark, N.J.) 1909-1916, 1913-05-23
HUNGRY ESQU|MO
ARE CANN|BALS
RevengefuI and Murder Is to
Them Hardly a Crime
At All.

A great work is being done far up
on the northeast shores of Hudson
bay in converting the wandering In
dians and Esquimaux who inhabit
that desolate region to Christianity,
A devoted little band of three or four
Christian pioneers is stationed there.
and a member of that Arctic mis-
sion," who is in England for short
leave, gave some of his experiences
of the country and its people.
Il am stationed at a tiny settle
ment on Great White river, said the
Rev. W. G. Walton, in the London
Standard, land the town consists
of two houses and store live At
one of the houses with a Hudson bay
trader. We get two mails a year out
there, but the newspapers only visit
us once, so that you can imagine our
expectation when newspaper day
comes round AT the end of August
every year a ship calls, and we have
to be very careful to remember to
order everything we want, because if
we forget anything we should have to
wait another year.
They Never Wash.
1.-The Eskimos never wash them
selves. | have often seen an Eskimo
woman washing her young children
like a cat does a kitten-by licking
them all over. Their only means of
livelihood lies in catching seals. They
are always on the lookout for seal
holes in the ice They cut out the
blubber-that is, the fat of the seal
and clothe themselves or at any rate
make their trousers out of sealskin
1t is very colds degrees below zero
as a rule-and we Europeans nave TO
keep roaring fires going in every
room of our house.
1.-The people don't live in villages,
but separately in families, so as to
have as wide field for hunting
as possible. They are very revenge
full people. A short while ago an
Esquimau was out hunting and saw
a black dot in the distance on the
Ice. On approaching he made certain
that it was seal just protrudlng
from a seal hole. He fired and hit II.
but when he got up to 1t ne round
that he had accidentally shot a man.
He called on the widow, said how
sorry he was, and, promising to help
the woman, asked for forgiveness.
The son of the dead man entered,
and when he heard rushed OF ana
killed all the unfortunate hunters
family in revenge. In retaliation the
hunter killed all the dead mans fam
lily, and so the fued began. When we
were informed of this and came to
investigate we found that there was
only one man surviving out OF two
families of about seventeen persons.
We could do nothing but lecture the
survivor.
"They were terribly lawless until
we came. and even now. when In the
grip of starvation, commit the most
awful deeds. Lately a mother, raw
aged terribly by hunger, went to the
length of eating her two children,
Another killed his wife and lived on
her, and when she had been eaten UP
tried to murder three other mems
children. Luckily he was prevented.
There are no native laws. They won't
steal. but think nothing of murder.
when they are put out as the
saving goes, they must take a life.
They don't mind whom they Kill
when they are angry, as long as they
kill some one. There is no sort OF
punishment for the crime. They are
very fond of singing, and their favor
ite. or only game is connected there
with A piece of seal bone, with