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...Esquimaux have no books, no schools, no churches, but in their way they are as highly educated as we are", declared Captain Donald B. MacMillan last night during the course of a speech in the Union on his recent trip to northern-most Greenland...
Donald M. MacMillan, 49, Professor of Anthropology at Bowdoin College, is experiencing his ninth polar expedition. He was on Peary's Expedition (1908-09) when the latter discovered the North Pole. For two years he did ethnological work among the Esquimaux. He has been the leader of the Crocker Land Expedition (1913-17) and the Baffin Land Expedition...
...couple out of Reykjavik by a few minutes, did not turn up in Ivigtut that night. The Americans had last seen him as they neared the Greenland fog banks and felt sure he had not overshot his mark. Searchers from Ivigtut cruised the perilous icebound coast to eastward, Esquimaux trotted along the shore, looking, looking. Late Sunday night, 125 miles from shore, floating helplessly with a dead motor, Locatelli and his companions were sighted amid the waves by the U. S. cruiser Richmond, were taken aboard worn with fatigue but sound. To save the patrol ships further trouble, Locatelli scuttled...
Greenland is in some respects one of the most mysterious regions of the world. Vast in size, having a territory perhaps one third as great as that of the U. S., it is inhabited by only about 14,000 Esquimaux. The Danes, who rule the Island, forbid the entry of all other men, knowing the deadly influence of whites upon these savages. Besides, it is doubtful if anyone would journey to Greenland with a view to settling there, even if the Danes would permit it. Greenland is 4,000 to 5,000 feet high throughout, rocky, craggy, eternally covered with...
That the percentage of Esquimaux, Aleutians, polar bears and walri in the Senior class is noticeably meagre...