DEMORALISATION OF ESQUIMAUX.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXIV, Issue 162, 16 July 1907, Page 3

DEMORALISATION OF ESQUIMAUX.

New Yobk, April 9. Dr. Winfred T. Grenfell, widely known for his missionary work among the Esquimaux, gave has views on the affairs of the Arctic region to-day before starting for England to spend a few weeks with ;his mother preparatory to returning to his Labrador field. Dr. Greenfell is surgeon, master mariner, magisrate and agent for Lloyds. He expressed himself against polar exploration, not only because the discovery of the North Pole, if it should chance to occur, would be of no practical benefit, but also because exploration parties have always done great harm to the Esquimaux race. • There won't be au Esquimaux living in a few years unless ..Arctic expeditions cease,'' he said. '' Exploring parties commit awful Bins against the northern natives. The Esquimaux race is doomed. The -white man is killing them with liquor and vices. Every time an exT ploring party has gone to that part of the land "the immorality of -the women there was always marked thereafter. The missionary is the only one who can safeguard the Esquimaux. The explorer won't do it. The Esquimaux are dying by the soore as a result of the vices which the white man taught them. There is no necessary land, at the Polenothing except the land at the Pole —Nothing except the open sea which freezes over. ,,