THREE WEEKS IN HUBBARD BAY 



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Winter islands. Ryder mentions remains at Cape Kasson and 

 on the north side of Wilcox head, which I did not see. In a 

 house a little farther south Ryder found "a large white glass 

 bead." This would seem to indicate early Norse influences and 

 add to the interest of the region. 



My three live Eskimos were interesting " study specimens." 

 One of them was a blond of the purest type, in whom the admix- 

 ture of aboriginal blood was so slight as to be imperceptible; 

 the others, though dark in hair and eye, were as white-skinned 

 as Europeans. It is the same throughout Danish Greenland. 

 The whole population is being rapidly Aryanized, and within a 

 few generations we shall have the curious spectacle of a race 

 practically Aryan in blood, and of the finest Aryan type at that, 

 the Scandinavian, yet speaking one of the most primitive of 

 " savage " languages, in which so simple a word as eight is ex- 

 pressed by the polysyllable apennepingazhut. Some of the young 

 women would pass for beauties anywhere, and one is somewhat 

 shocked at seeing them amid their dingy, desolate surroundings. 

 One peculiarity that struck me as soon as I reached Greenland 

 was the exquisite modulations of the voices of both men and 

 women, constantly reminding one of the French intonations. 



ESKIMO FAMILY AT UMANAK 



