LIEUT PEARY'S EXPEDITION.

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLII, Issue 7628, 15 December 1902, Page 4

LIEUT PEARY'S EXPEDITION.

— -♦ — THE MOST NOKTHERLY PEOPLE IN THE WORLD. Lieutenant Peary, in an interview published in the New York World, claims that the scientific results of his expedition are far more valuable than if it had reached the North Pole, the discovery of which is a more- or less spectacular achievement. Perhaps the most important non-scientific result is the conclusive proof that Arctic exploration can be carried on without great danger or exceptional hardships— indeed, a man of the right sort can work as well -in the Arctic regions as in New York. Lieutenant Peary said he had made a close study of the Esquimaux living, on Whale Sound, the most northerly people in the world. Their complete isolation has differentiated them from every other race. They are a small tribe, not exceeding 200 in number and are being rapidly destroyed by an unknown disease, apparently a malignant sow fever. Lieutenant Peary collected specimens of everything perj taming to their habits, know every man, woman, and child personally their characters and capacities, and taught them to work. He employed thorn extensively, and paid them with weapons nnd utonsils, by which their ability to procure food is infinitely increased so much so that their man"c? °J If ls taein £ revolutionised.— ' Laffan,"