ESKIMOS FOUND FROZEN

New Zealand Times, Volume XXX, Issue 6678, 28 November 1908, Page 3

ESKIMOS FOUND FROZEN

TERRIBLE PATE OP WHOLE VILLAGE ON SIBERIAN COAST. A letter from the Rev. Edward O. Campbell, who is in charge of the Presbyterian mission station at St. Lawrence Island, near Nome, Alaska, tells a strange tale of death by starvation in the far North, says a Reuter message from Victoria, British Columbia. Frozen stiff and having evidently been a long time dead, a whole village of Siberian Eskimos were found on tho Siberian coast by 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 unfortunates had actually commenced to devour parts of their own clothing before succumbing to the pangs of starvation. Only once a year is the island of St. X.awrenco in communication with the outside world, and the information received through Mr Campbell is the first news of the tragedy that has become known.