The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1924-10-25
ny LELAND HaNNuM


The Greenland Eskimo u the namc
Ms the Alaskan. they have tho 1ame
language and habits, tho these latter
and their customs and mcana % llv-
ing may be differentiated by their
place OF living
That tn the sscre, wfcstsd from the
bleak Northmnd after a three year
expedition 70 alt peopled places. from
Thule. Greenland. 90 Siberia. by knud
Rasmussen. Danish explorer who ar
rived In Seattle Friday aboard The
steamer Princess Victoria with two
natives and Leo Hanson. movie
eamcrpman
The secret dawucd on Rasmussen
during the long winter nights he
spent with tho HAilves from Baffin.
land 20 Point Barrow. but !, was cor
rOboratsd down on seat,jes water
front Friday In a dramatic meeting
OF two Eskimos who bad never before
seen one another.
Little Girl" II she could spell In
English. she would write Il this way
--ArnaruiunRuak-- stepped OF the
gansway and faced an Alaskan Eski
mo woman on the dock.
Little Girl" spoke 20 her in her
native Greenland language and the
Alaskan Eskimo answered. in her
Alaskan dialect--one and tho nme
Rasmussen says soon they were in
earnest Conversation. tho their homes
are more than 1000 miles apart
With Rasmussen Hanson and Lit.
tie Girl Is Meetck. The Elder
Duck" n mighty hunter despite his
youthful % years. Meetek and Ar.
narlunknak, are going 20 Copenhagen
with Rasmussen. There they will bo
put aboard some little schooner and
taken back to their homes on the
northwestern corner OF Greenland
The farthest north inhabited place.
Rasmussen has spent more than
half Of his a. years IN the North
land He II Acknowledgement than
that. no understands and does not
hesitate to live native" Yet he
has great longing to return to
his native Denmark--therc a wife
and three children are awaiting
their husband and father.
Rasmussen isn't at liberty 70 dilats
on his findings-he has material for
more thar 30 volumes OF Official re.
port alone. between 1000 and 1900
feet Of motion picture film and
hundreds OF stills The king oi
Denmark Is patron for the oxpedi.
ton and to him and the Danish
scientists alone. the hardy explorer
says. his report can be made.
Away back In the spring % 1921
Rasmussen with five scientists sail
ed up the southern and western
coastline OF Greenland. They stopped
at Thule, the farthest north tradlnl
post. and established several year
before by Rasmussen and tho homi
OF the two natives. and there lit
/ tic Girl" a widow. now aged 20
Joined her dead husbands whit
friend. Young Elder Duck" In,
won ronown az n hunter and h
went along with five other natives
The party crossed by schooner 4
Baffinland and there they apen
the frat winter. TO cover all IN
territory in which he thought Their
might be Esklmos. Rasmussen spill
his party into five groups. one 70
each scientist. reserying the longes
and most dangerous for himself
one went across Baffinland an,
Is now back In Denmark. a sccon,
went south into the Hudson ia,
territory and came oat at Winnipeg
as did a third which headed farthe
west toward the Alaskan boundary
a foL7th visited all the far nortl
islands making up the Arctic archl
pelago.
With Meetek and Little Girl.
Rasmussen circled back and fortl
across the northcrnmost part o
Canada. living with natives. gather
ing collections, studying the peopl
ana their habits, taking picture