THOSE PALE-FACE ESKIMOS.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1593, 9 November 1912, Page 6

THOSE PALE-FACE ESKIMOS.

—— *.— — - Vilhjamar Stefanssdn, the, explorer, has issued a statement accompanying an official circular from the Aipefcican Museum of Natural .History, explaining just what he had said about the .so-called "blphd" Eskimos—the strange people he met iiear Coronation Gulf. "I, have never," Stefansr-on ■ declares;, "said to any one that I discovered 2000 ptire Scandinavians or any' oihev number of 'pure Scandinavians in Coronation Gulf, or anywhere else in the Arctic-. I never said that the people in question had ; f tto Mongolian characteristics whatever*; I never" - .said, they had'any connection with'Xeif the ijiieky,' nor with a Scandinavian Colony- in Newfoundland,; nor did I ever'hear of such,a colony - before the newspapers fluo'ted mo as discussing it. I never said the weapons -or impleincnts ot the Coronation Gulf Eskimo'.or . any other American Arctic people known' to' me resemblfed. those of the Norse col-' iihists in Greenland. What I did say has been briefly summarised in the stato> merit issued .by the Museum," The Musetiin's statement, after, referring to the tendency toward blondhess of the Eskimos in question,-says; ,■' "It. is too early to settle definitely Oh anj. theory explaining the facts. Of. the various explanations that, have so-tar . been suggested, it. seems'to' Mi 1 . '■ Stefan*.son that the. One open to. the fewest "ser-' ioiis objections is that of A £h'e admixture of a large amount of European blood at : some, fairly, remote period. In this con* Section the disappearance in the fifteenth ior sixteenth centuries of the Norse (sol* ony from Greenland .suggests itself as a . possible - source of tho-FAiropean-like cfrar- : actsr." ....