STARVED TO DEATH.

Bush Advocate, Volume XXI, Issue 143, 16 December 1908, Page 7

STARVED TO DEATH.

Renter's correspondent at Victoria, British Columbia, writing on September 20, says: The Rev. Wailac© H. Lee, of Seattle, has received a letter from the Rev-. Edward Campbell, who is in charge of the Presbyterian mission station at St. Lawrence Island, near Nome, Alaska, telling a strange tale of death I>y starvation in. the Far North. Frozen stiff, and. having evidently beem a long time dead, a, whole village of Siberian Eskimos were found on the Siberian coast I)s' a party of Indians who went in a canoe last June to see their comrades and to inquire what experiences they had gone through during the long Arctic winter. The party found the villagers! to a man dead and frozen . stiff. Their provisions had evidently been exhausted, and in their famished condition they had eaten the walrus skin coverings of their huts, and there was evidence that the unfortunate folk had actual- | ly commenced t& devour parts of their own clothing before succumbing to the pangs of starvation. Only once a. year is the. island of St. Lawrence in communication, with the outside world, and the letter just received by Mr Campbell is the first news of the tragedy, that has become known