AKULIAKATTAGMUIT.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 65, 12 March 1912, Page 7

AKULIAKATTAGMUIT.

A NEW POLAR RACE. Tidings of a hitherto unknown race have been received an despatches to tho 'American i Museum 'of .Natural History from Stefansson and Anderson, who are conducting an expedition in the far North in the interests of the museum and * the Canadian . Government. The strange race was located in Victoria Land, north of Cape Bexley. One theory of their origin is that they may' bo descendants of an ancient Icelandic colony from Greenland. Of unusual interest is the fact that tho natives bear names that can be translated into English, suggesting that survivors of the Franklin expedition may have lived among them. They have some Scandinavian characteristics and are different from any American aborigines. Two of them wore beards of a reddish colour, and all had light eyebrows. Nothing learned from them indicated that the race a® it exists to-day had ever soon a white man. The courier who first went forward to parley with them almost lost his life, when a native attacked him with a knife. Friendly advances were at last successful, and. by means of tho sign language and the assistance of native guides communication was held. 'The race was an aboriginal one, called lAhku-li-a-kat-tag-mi-ut. It had ■been believed that the, territory was uninhabitatod. 1