Every evening, Wilmington daily commercial., 1918-11-22
Fl d. D ESE|,aCS lever
FEDE;; ALWAYS yoU.G
Aged and Young Have Same Fresh
Looking Features. Says
Arctic Explorer.

Seattle. Nov 6 Sure they re '!lcnd
Esklmus They arc n. rl>1ncS livirE NJ
in tho white Arctic on Nict-ra Lsnd II
their pnmeval s.atc absolutely Ertcrt hod
IN the outside world evil. "uon lhoy
arc completely ont o. coutaci with
ever, thing and. consequently, haze none
Of our improvements and also none q
orr evils
" J Bower known along the Arctic
coast rs Levi Bower one Of the very
few men who have gone from the out
side INTO the far northern almost faflcd
land Of the "tlond >kIn&o thus de-
cribed them when he WIS here recently
And ! don't think il was Stciarsson
who first found them BoS, y asserted
Nilhjalmur Stcfansson rCtur.tcd Canadlan
Arctic explorer. WHO has been credited
with discovering the strange tribe. agTces
with Bower that hc did not find them
first. He does. however claim that he
made the first study of the tri'c ana
brought back t. the outside world the
FIRST report of It's existence.
According u Stei4usson and Bower 4
Captain kIinkeroerg. master o. the
whaling schooner Olga IN 1905 pushed
northwest II 10 Victoria Land where he
found the blond tribe On his return 70
the " haliug asc al HcrSche Island. an
Arctic Ocean point he ted OF has findings
Stefaussor. then q Herschcl heard Min
kenbergs story and immediately went 70
Victoria where he made study OF the
natives !,
Bower claimed the blond EskImos"
are really blond >tefansson does not 60
that far but SAYS they have light gray
almost blue ewes and few have light
hair and eyebrows Bower pointed out
hsx- n full
ewes while the other Fskimus Of the far
north have the slant eyes OF AslatIcs
1t looks As if the blond Esklmos
come from carlv Grccrlar dcFs CT Scar
dinaviao stock of some kind Bower said
Il know they are not half white and
half Eskimo because the half breed
fskimos have black vcs and black HAIR.
These white ones have light eyes and hight
skin and hair. The old men OF TIE tribe
have the same white features Is the young.
Bows and arrows are used by them,
they know nothing about tobacco and
!iQ,lor. they make their fires woth sort
If flint, they dress IN skins, they speary
their reindeer and club their tish. the
won't eat outsider food and they speak
language similar to that Of the Eskimo.
They are hospit2ble friendly and
square, too square, | think. Il YOU give
them anything they are not salIs-ied
until they give you something IN return.
| IA . one woman an empty baking
powder tin and she immediately brought
me i big skin.
We left 4 gun with them Instead of
using il to Kill meat, the men seemed
- think IL was playt NJ for when | lett
, they ~ere shooting their bullets away at
! targets and wildly into the AR When
they ran out Of ammunition they probably
t4rned the gun around and got some real
/ use out of II a. . clib.
Bower sand he thought there were over
80 blond Eskimo on Victoria Land
II i Aot very probable that they will ever
b. uoirs cd much by the outside world
for Victoria Land is far of the usual run
uf traders and wAalcrs g into the Arctic
10 longer.
Bower h4s served On whaling vessels
in many parts Of the north and until
his recent return To the State mad not
Decns out of the Arctic for i've years.
ON Stcfuasson last rip he was steward
on the schooner Polar .y.lch 81 fansson
used for time Stcfa1sson took Bower
into the blond Eskimo country.