The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1918-11-07
BLOND ESKIMOS
IN WHITE ARCTIC
They Are Completely Out of Contact
with Everything and So Have None
of Our improvements and
None of Our Evils.

Seattle, Nov. 6.-"Sure they're blond
Eskimos. They are aborigines living up
in the white Arctic on Victoria land in
their primeval state absolutely un.
touched by the outside worlds civili-
zation. They are completely out Of con-
tact with everything and, consequently
have none Of our improvements and none
Of our evils.
w, J. Bower, known along the Arctic
coast as Levi Bower" one of the very
few men who have gone from the outside
into the far northern almost tabled land
of the blond Eskimos," thus described
them when he was here recently.
"And l don't think it was Stefanson
who first found them" Bower asserted.
yilhjslmur Stefanson, returned Canadi.
an Arctic explorer. who has been credit
ed with discovering the strange. tribe,
agrees with Bower that he did not find
them first He does, however, claim that
he made the first study Of the tribe and
brought back TO the outside world the
FIRST report OF It's existence.
According to Stefanson and Bower, a
Captain klinkerberg, master Of the
whaling schooner Olga, in 1905 pushed
northwest to Victoria, where he found
the blond tribe. On his return 10 the
the whaling base at Herschel island, an
Arctic ocean point, he told Of his find
ings Stefanson, then at Herschel, heard
Kinkerberg's story and Immediately
went to Victoria, where he made q study
Of the natives
Bower claimed the blond Eskimosn
are really blond Stefanson does not 90
that far but says they have light gray
almost blue eyes and a few have light
hair and eyebrows Bower pointed out
that the "bl0nd" natives have round full
eyes, while the other Eskimos Of the
far north have the slant eyes of Asiat-
les
ut looks as II the blond Eskimo came
from early Greenlanders, or Scandina-
Wan stock Of some kind, Bower said
AZ know they are not half white and
half Eskimo because the half breed Es-
kimos have black eyes and black hair
These white ones have light eyes and
light skin and hair. The old men Of the
tribe have the same white features az
the young
Bows and arrows are used by them
they know nothing about tobacco and II.
quor, they make their fires with sort Of
flint, they dress in skins, they spear
their reindeer and club their fish they
won't eat outsiders food and they speak
language similar TO that Of the Es.
kimo.
"They are hospitable, friendly and
square, too square, ! think. II you give
them anything they are not satisfied IN
I'll they give YOU something in return
gave one woman an empty baking
powder tin and she Immediately brought
q big skin.
I'VE left gun with them, Instead Of
using It TO Kill meat, the men seemed
to think II was a plaything for when
left they were shooting their bullet:
away at targets and wildly into the air
When they run out Of ammunition they
probably viii turn the gun around and
get some real use out of II as club.
Bower said he thought there were over
$50 "blond Eskimos" on Victoria land
It is not very probable that they will be
molested much by the outside world, for
Victoria land is far off the usual run Of
traders and whalers go into the Arctic
no longer.
Bower has served on whaling vessels
in many parts Of the north, and until
his recent return to the states, had not
been out Of the Arctic for five years, On
Stefanson's last trip he was steward on
the schooner Polar Bear. which Stefan
son used for time Stefanson took
Bower into the ''blond Eskimo" country