TRANSPLANTED TRIBES.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LII, Issue 59, 3 April 1909, Page 4

TRANSPLANTED TRIBES.

A i-unnimu'ement ha* just been made in a mast remarkable and long-talked-ol enterprise. This is nothing less than tlie transplanting m the Lapps from Lapland. where they are a dying vac;*, to Labrador, where it is hoped that thvy will llonrwh and increase. Whether these hopes will lie justified or uol. remains to be seen. Similar experiments i.i the past have seldom been wholly successful, ami some have resulted disastrously.

The Doukliolioi*. fur instance, who, ill lS'.lil, wi'if transported. to til;' number „f eight or nine llioftsand, from their hollies ill Southern Iviissia, to the Canadian North-West, were for time in toe straits. They al-u liehaved erratically, inarcliinji naked through tite snow, and aliandoniu;: their Hooks and herds to the wolve-. They ui-i- now. lioxvever, reported to 1"' -«* l 1 liiiji down ami doing hitler. Oil the ntlier hand, the attempt made, some eifiht.v ,v«nrs ago, to transplant the lloskoluiliis of the Don country to anew home that was supposed to have been fonud for them in Kastern Turkestan, resulted in one of the most ghastly tragedies recorded in the annals of history. The lni<rc caravan lost its way in the terrible iJesert of (lohi, and was never heard of again, the probability lieiiij; that hunger and thirst, combined with the attacks of nomad robbers, were responsible for the deaths of the entile party. Equally dreadful wa.s the fate taat befell the ten thousand .Jutlaudere tramsplanted to the east coast of Greenland by Queen Margaret of Sweden. At first tiley nourished exceedingly. Villages were founded, churches rail schools were built., and a bishop was appointed. Then, one year, the ice pack broke loose from the remote northern seas, and came to a standstill along the coast opposite the settlements 151 a bolt fifty miles broad. All communication with t lie open sea was thus cut. oil'. The settlers were unable to obtain supplies, and in the end they perished down to the very last