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ments of the Eskimo is a risky buSi-
ness.
But YOU will find 1t hard to talk
with Silook. even if you knew his
language. You will find that he has
no word for school, church, train,
automobile, book. pencil and many
other things of which you speak every
day. He knows only of ice and snow
and of such animals as live in the
very coolest parts of the world. He
may have a word for store, because in
some parts Of the Arctic regions there
are trading posts or settlements. where
the more progressive Eskimos go to
trade their furs for needles, knives and
tools.
WHEN your ride Is over Silook
w leaves you at your ship. You
want to give a present. There Is
nothing in the world he would like
so much as your pocket knife, for he
has never seen one like it. When you
slip it into his hand and make him
understand that it is for him to keep
he is so happy you are afraid he is
going to rub noses with you. You
watch him drive away. feeling glad
that you are not going back with him
to stay for the night in his 'igloo,' but
rather place like home, sweet home.
Home
Air conditioning is unknown in the
Arctic regions. In a group of Winter
snow-covered huts you will see COM
mon entrance, for it is not well to
! let in too much air in Eskimoland.
These openings in the roof are not
windows but are the holes which tell
you the village is deserted. They are
| made for taking out the household
goods at the time of leaving the Win
ter houses of snow blocks for the tent
homes of the Summer hunting sea-
! son.
THE ESkimos show themselves in
genious in many things they have
invented and they apply their invent
i've faculty in the use OF modern
weapons. They are skillful hunters
and use primitive weapons.
"An Eskimo mother never kisses her
baby. Though she loves it so much
she prefers to rub noses with it. AL
though their houses are made Of
| blocks of snow in solid form, their
clothes come from civilized lands.
1.-THE contact of the white race with
| inferior races of new lands has very
| frequently proved fatal to the native
| inhabitants. In Alaska the United
States has demonstrated that it can
rescue an inferior race from extinc-
ton. The United States Bureau of
Education has checked the spread of
white vices. and by education and the
| introduction of the reindeer it has
given the natives new means of live
lihood. From the reindeer the Eski-
mos and other natives get meat, milk
and hides. 1t also furnishes them
with means of transportation and the
possession of q herd encourages thrift
and industry.
There were no reindeer in Alaska
before the United States took posses
sion. The entire reindeer industry
grew up around the original herd of
hardly more than 1000 imported from
Siberia. Now there are 500 times
that number and more than 100000
worth of reindeer meat exported to
the United States every year.
Alaska has a territorial form OF
government. Its Legislature makes
its local laws. The Governor is ap-
pointed by the President of the United
States. It's one delegate in Congress
has right to speak, but without vote.
The first Governor OF Alaska was
John Henry Kinkead, in 1884. The
present Governor is John w. Troy.
Alaska is an empire In the making,
but its making is slow. largely be-
cause of the difficulty of building and
maintaining roads and railroads.
There are less than 1000 miles of
railroads and about 10000 miles of
roads and trails.
1.-The area Of Alaska, which Is $780,
900 square miles, is considerably
larger than the IS original States Of
the Union. and makes one-sixth Of
the present United States. It Is about
equal in size to the 20 States which
extend from the Gulf Of Mexico to
the st. Lawrence River, and from the
Atlantic Ocean to the Mississippi.
1.-THE recent development Of airplane
routes and landing fields Is doing
much to overcome the handicap. In
fact, it has been said that Alaska
makes more practical use of the air.
plane than any other section of the
United States. The population tn
creased by only about 10000 perma-
rent inhabitants between 1880 and
1920. The native population is grow
ing slowly and at the last census
numbered 26,500 approximately.
To-day there is no such place as
Never, Never Land or No Mans
Land for every part Of the globe,
through aviation, is inhabited by some