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...Jawn," the latest namesake of several distinguished Harvard men and U.S. presidents, is a 64-year-old Birnik Eskimo, who has traveled the world, had his furs taken by the Russians, and has captured a white whale--unassisted--in his kyack. He was the most amusing, though not the most important discovery of Peabody Museum's expedition to the far north last summer...
John Quincy Adam's real name in Eskimo means "the women." He was given his Boston surname by white traders. John, the chief of the Eskimo crew, delights in telling in his pidgin English of his world travels. The white men who first recruited him took him to Siberia to trap furs. The Russians, however, took his furs from him. Carter described this incident as "just another example of Russian-Alaskan strained relations." He said there have always been ill feelings across the Bering Strait...
Humphrey flew to Canada to buttonhole Timmins. The land lay in desolate territory some 300 miles north of the Gulf of St. Lawrence, in an area called "Ungava"-Eskimo for "faraway." Said Humphrey to Timmins: "What if you found $100 million worth of gold up there? Would anybody build a railroad to bring it out?" He answered his own question. Hurrying back to the U.S., he got the backing of five big U.S. steel companies, a $200 million loan from insurance companies, and formed a corporation with Timmins' Hollinger Consolidated Gold Mines, Ltd. to bring out the iron...
...influenza pandemic which raged around the world in 1918-19 was the third great plague in recorded history.* Nobody ever isolated the microbe that caused it, and recent attempts to find the supposed virus in the long-frozen corpses of Eskimo victims have got nowhere. But experts are confident that the killer, which rivaled World War I in numbers of victims, was indeed a virus. And, 34 years later, they are working night & day to find a defense so that it can never strike again with such deadly effect...
...home of the world's last flint knapper and used to be famous for its flints which were exported to all parts of the world. Flints are still exported from Brandon to the U.S. for flintlock guns (some years ago a request was received from an Eskimo for flints for his tinderbox) and to West Africa for the same purpose. Sadly enough, the craft is rapidly dying out, and mining ceased with the death of the last flint miner some years...