The Alaska daily empire., 1916-07-28
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lcincInnnlI Enunlrerl

Cincinnati Enquirer
 There win always come theories m eNplihal'On oi mysterious occurrences and conotons, "'G su M b those anent the blond Eskimo people dlseoEereu Ds Stefausson The new comes from missionary Rev w. H. Fry From his base at Cape Parry @ 1n the Arctic he made a long sleuge bourne! W,'H 5lN dogs and accompanied by one Eskimo toward cape BiXley and Victoria Land where ne hopel 'O Ie'gn tbe habitat of the two or three hundred EsNmoS on,op, whom are these people or blond hair ana blue eyes, whose existence has been vouche0 TOT o Stof,rss,n Within sixty miles of his destination be as obliged To turn back on account ot the severe inness of his companion. or course it was rough sledding" of many weeks but he ana ms uosS O'o"e" the sick Eskimo back to shelter. A
 MT Fr, did not see any blond people, and he frankly repored his failure in that respect to the Eo- monon Bulletin. but he conjured up and Drousn5 DatH a theory account for their being m oppoSl'on W O that Of the great explorer who had act1auy seen seen some of them. He thinks it likely tnat ,Rerg , "eae and Terror of Sir John Franklins Northwest Passage exploration who lived with the Eskimo people ana begat children tO become ancestors or lhese o'ouu people Steiansson discovered to us
 Many relics of the Franklin party of l2i officers aud men of their ships and boats and some w5'''en m records telling of their sufCerings were turned up bv the score of search parties sent out ailer them in the thirty years following lSfS but ne hhal con clusion of the British Government was 'n"' io' '0
 Put lef ms suppose with this latest theorst that some of them may have surVNeo lo leo'e 'slaS Sn't by Eskimo women what has ie0 MT tIy to 'I w that they were blond men? This missionary teuS us that he made this journey m search oi heatne" & Ls kimos thus distinguishing them from thoSe Who nave bean brought under influence of missions. lt seems strange that he should in his theory have cal culated upon the possibility of some or those frahhhh men having enough faith in Christianity 10 have hand ed down 10 their children and through them 10 other generations at least vague tradition or Ie"s'OH taught by the Church ot England.
 Evidently. in search for the blond ancestors of these "heathen Eskimos' Of light hair ana Due eyes. we are thrown back upon MT Steiansson s theory that they are descendants of ScandlnaV ans who may have drfted over the icy North Of this continent seven or eight hundred years ago Inose s white people mostly of light hair and eyes no 1ouD1 were descended from families that Erie the Red pi' rate murderer outlaw. first from Norway and men rom Iceland but always daring adventurer ana pros pector had prevailed upon to leave Iceland ana seue in Greenland There had been Eskmos m Greeniauo before that time and in the centuries following lnere were warIike invasions Of them upon me ho'o3ss tween that great island and the mainland or ice or North America there may have been frequent voyages of warning peoples and some Of tho Greenland ueS cendants Of the Scandinavans may have settled wla the EskimOs this side.
 Mir Fry has not given up his commenuaoe puI- pose of reaching these strange blonds and resculnB them from their heaihen condition On the contr9IS having taken Co himself wife, at Edmonton ne naS set out toward Victoria Land for a honeymoon.