26 Olof Kranr. 



so I returned it to him. He is still living in Mani- 

 toba, and is 65 years old. This is several years older 

 than people live in Greenland. Oldest people we 

 ever knew were 60 years old. This I know from the 

 Icelanders, who went round to all the snow houses 

 and counted the bones in the different sacks. 



When I reached Minneapolis I was taken sick, and 

 the doctors did not know what to do for me. They 

 kept me in a warm room, and I grew worse every 

 day. At last Mr. C. heard of a doctor who had been 

 in Greenland, and sent for him. Under bis advice 1 

 was taken to Minnetonka and kept in a cold room, 

 and I got well. 



At first I traveled as a curiosity and charged ten 

 cents. All I could do was to let the people see me, 

 show my costume, flint and tusk, sing a few songs, 

 etc. By degrees I learned to answer questions, and 

 at last came to talk pretty well. While we were at 

 a place in Indiana, called Cloverdale, some profes- 

 sors and a minister urged me to give a lecture. They 

 secured a large hall, and when I peeked through a 

 hole in the curtain I saw about 300 people, and was 

 nearly scared out of my wits. But Mrs. C. got me 

 mad over something about my dress, and the curtain 

 went up while I was standing there, and I spoke to 

 them right along. That was Dec. 30th, 1884. Since 

 then I have been lecturing right along, except in 

 some short times of sickness, and the hottest weath- 

 er. I have been in Minnesota, Wisconsin, Iowa, 

 Ilinois, Michigan, Ohio, Indiana, Missouri, Kansas, 



