WHITE ESKIMOS.

Dominion, Volume 5, Issue 1542, 11 September 1912, Page 7

WHITE ESKIMOS.

INTERESTING DISCOVERY. DESCENDANTS OF A GREAT NORSE CHIEF. SCIENTIFIC EXPEDITION. By Telegraph—Press Association-Copyright Vancouver, September 10. I Professor Stefansson, of the American Alusoum of Natural History, who has returned from the Arctic regions, announces the discovery of a thousand white people living on Victoria Island, near the mouth of tho Mackenzie River. They are believed to b© the descendants of Ericksson, tho Norso chief, who reached Greenland about the year 10,000. Professor Stefansson found ten new tribes, some of which had seen Franklin. (Rec. September 10, 11.10 p.m.) Vancouver, September 10. ' Professor Stefansson reports that Hubert Darrell, an Englishman, who disappeared in the Arctic regions in 1309, is in all probability dead. Darrell travolled alone, exploring the coast in order to buy furs from tho tribesmen. Ho then disappeared. ■ Professor Stefansson states that the supposed Norwegian Eskimos know nothing of their ancestry, but their Uuo ; eyes and blonde hair stamp them as Scandinavians of a new type. Tho land is barren. The grizzly bear is found in the neighbourhood. Professor Stefansson announces other valuable-scientific results. ERIC THE LUCKY. Loif Ericsson, a Scandinavian explorer of Icelandic family, was the first known European discoverer of "Vineland," or "YVineland, the good," in North America. In 999 A.D. he wont from Greenland to the Court of King Olnf Tryggvason, in Norway. On his departure from Norway in 1000 A.D. the King commissioned him to proclaim Christianity in Greenland. As on his outward voyage, Leif was driven far out of his course by contrary weather—this time to lands (in America] "of which he had previously no knowledge," where "self-sown" wheat grew, also vines. Leif took specimens of all these, and sailing away, arrived safely at his father's homo in Greenland; On his voyage from Vineland to Greenland, Leif rescued some shipwrecked men, arid from this and his discoveries, he gained tho name of "Tho Lucky." This is the account of the "Saga of Eric the Red."