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they are a remnant of an ancient Siberian tribe, which in the univer-
sal wars and unrest of the Middle Ages was forced northward off
the coast of northern Asia and wandering to and across unknown
lands in the central polar basin, found their way to the northern
terminus of Greenland and thence down the coast to the region of
Smith Sound. A portion of the tribe may have pressed on still
further down the Greenland coast to Cape Farewell while still
another may have come southward along the east co ast of Greenland
and yet another may have crossed Smith Sound and passing through
the North American archipelago have reached and inhabited the
arctic coast of North America.
Certain it is however, that one portion tarried in the
Whale Sound oasis, and for an unknown length of time hase remained
there till the present, neither increasing nor decreasing in num-
bers, but preserving natures balance with the food producing capa-
bilities of the 1° contracted prison.
Their only inter course with members of the human family
outside of their own tribe, has consisted of rare encounters of an
occasional hardy hunter out on an extended bear hunt, with the
natives of the west side of Smith Sound, and in more recent
years the occasional visit of a few of their men to the Whalers
detained in the ice near Cape York or the rare wintering of some
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