The Daily Alaska empire Newspaper, January 18, 1928, Page 2

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Jan. 18 “—Greenland is the lonellest con- tinent in the world. Tucked away in the Arctic circle, with its fin- gers frozen and its ears frosi- bitten from one end of the year to the other, it ekes out its exis'- ence catching seals and eating fish. These are the conclusions of members of an official expedition sent out by the Danish govern- ‘ment to make a complete explora- tion of the island. The expedi tlon found the Eskimos clothed, for the most part, in garmen's make themselves from the of animals. Except for a simple sports they have little ' There are but a few Buropeans on the great ‘were placed ‘n ¥ and its breadth from Cleveland t:] Florida. And yet its total populu-| tion of 12,000 would not make a’ good sized American town. | Links U. S. History The history of the United States | really begins with Greenland. I | Wwas on a voyage from Norway to Greenland that Leif Ericsson, son of Eric the Red, discoyered America in the year 1000. A few years later Torfinn Karlsefne ! sailed from Greenland to Nova Scotia with three ships and 150 men, but returned three years later, The old Norse sagas say*that when the Norsemen first came to Greenland, they found the same {type of people living there as! |they found in Vinland, in Amen- ca, | "Soon after Loit Ericsson’s visit to Greenland, the continental isi-| and was settled by several thous- and Scandinavians, During the later middle ages, however, all communication between Greenland and Norway ceased, and by the Ilixtoenth century all trace of the Europeans had faded. They had either inter-married with the Es- kimos or had been exterminated. Colonists Are Sent In the eighteenth century most of the colonists sent to Greenlanl were convicts. Christianity wes first introduced here hy n Leif jawarded the wateh | Ericsson In 1000, but it died outifered by Mre, several cemturies later, to be re- introduced - in 1721 by a Norwe- gian clergyman. Enormous - stretches of ' Green- land are 'still -uninhabited. The great majority of the population || is on the west and south coasts Danish expeditions continue to find evidences of ancient Eskinwo | civilization in the north, but the Eskimos themselves have wander- |} ed to the south, where they live dreary lives, their chief .entertain- ment being to sleep. House I'ulu Bond Bi For Asichorage, Seward WASHINGTON, Jjan. 17—The House has passed ine Sutherland bill authorizing Anchorage to ia- sue $100,000 in' bonds for con- struction and equipment of a school building. Seward is au. thorized to issue $50,000 school bonds. Permissipn of prospectors ‘to hunt game «4n the Mount McKin- ley National Park has been re- ked with the passage of the Curry bill, —————— WATCH FOR BARRAGAR —_— Harvey ~ Barragar -has been g chdin of- EASTMAN ANSWERS JUNGLE CAL , Hunting wild animals in the African jungles belongs on enybody's list of highly hazardon diversions, but at 73 fGeorge Eastman (left), Rochester, N. Y., cemcra manufecursr, is on his way again irto the Uganda wilderness armed with camera end 1’ Such seenes await him as | theee. above, just brought back by Brian Brooke, English hunter, *The pictures at the right chow natives employed as carrig’s, Above is a lioness shot by Brooke. victim. The beasts's ated his arms. swarms with game am the country e the days of| n has hunted| for ivory, but ill defies civ-| lions ter- ious !cup~‘ ENTEBBE. Uganda, Bast Af-|jeopard’s rica, Jan. 18-—At the age of 77 George Eastman, millionaire cam-! {Uganda era maker, philanthopist ard big| Elephants r game hunter of Rochester, N. Y.,!the thousan again has answered the call of ancient B the wild jungles of Africa. Ithe ar A charging buli thinoceros the wild elephant missed Eastman by inches during ilization. M: a hunt here last year, but thelrorize the natives veteran sportsman, lured from his ards are ubiquitous. » a ches! I' | 1t comfortable Rochester fireside, i8| oo e o Oppositionary Leaders Ord- coming back for more adventure.| M Sviny trps b4 ; : Eastman, his doctor, and a few|ANd leopard family = from the ° ered from Moscow to nt Felis Leo to the diminutive :m:",?, ,,;:“;h,."”;?(1’:;5.;..?1‘:';rr h | Kafiir cat, ance of the d"-f Distant Towns of the Nile from Cairo to Rejaf, Mestic tabby, and every primatej 5 the head of navigation, ‘Then|ffom the it gorilla to \u-.-; they cut across to Arua by auto-| DUsh-baby, no bigger than a half-| ions mobile, They will enter the jun-|&rown Kitten. i acter have been gle hunting fields with cameras| Mysterious is like = the and guns about February 1. white rhinocerous and the gor- In Uganda the big game chas.| illa, now in danger of extinec-|{must er's life is like a movie film of tion, may only be hunted with| p thrilis and hairbreadth escapes, n»llu‘ camera. | constant battie of humanj wits! Countless antelope, buffalo, ze-|the ' thr u and high-powered rifles against|bra, giraffe, birds of prey and have heen made, incarrigibles nature and the jungle beasts. death-dealing reptiles await the] penitents and non-penit The hunter isn't always as hunter in the untamed Iland,| Leon Trotzky, forme lucky as Eastman was in his nar-| which is a British protectorate. |the Red Army, foremost fig row escape last year. Even since| The Eastman party may en- in the Councils of Soviet Rus the Rochester man left the Unit-|counter adventure even before it Christian Frotzky, former ed States on the present expedi-|reaches Uganda. A few weeks Soviet Ambassador to France tion, one famous big game hun-/ago a British official mur-| Karl Radek, Bolshevi ter in East Africa has been kill-!dered by a tribesman in the Su been given m ed. Another, mauled by a leopard,;dan, and until the incident is > never will hunt again. William!settled the little ‘stenmers of the|the principles of Rado Y. Judd, who Ikilled African ele-|upper Nile, one of which is (-;n'-;' Radek has heen sent to a small phants for 30 years, met 'dr-n«h}x-ying the stman party, slip|town in a region horderi impaled on the tusks of a charg-'warily past the rude native vil-| Archangel Province. Di ing elephant he had wounded.|lages where naked braves in war| at fixing a place for the two Trot- Charles Cottar, big game hunter paint and carrying poisoned spears| zkys are being ‘experienced on of 20 years' experience, was the' line the r banks. account of the illness of Leon. MANY BEING | Vi SOVIET RUSS. Toscow and pr ant points for an whe indefinits iishment f once was ve AU CHAMBER OF COMMERCE DECEMBER 31, 1927 FINANCIAL STATEMENT JU DECEMBER, 1926 TO i 18528 v Balance December 1, 1926 RECEIPTS Subscription: Benquet .. City of Juneau—Cleanup . Sale of Tollers .......... Total . 5,449.48 DISBURSEMENTS Fourth of July Celebration .. 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