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A SHORTER ODYSSEY.
Will the odyssey of Dr. Ales Hrdlicka,
the anthropologist of the Smithsonian In
stitute, who arrived in Seward this morn
ing, attract the attention of coming ages
as Homer’s account of the wanderings of
Ulysses has attracted students during 2,000
years? Dr. Hrdlicka, financed by the bu
reau of ethnology, will undertake to follow
the trek of primitive man back to the point
whence he started for the continent of Am
erica. The racial characteristics of the Am
erican aborigines have led scientists to be
lieve that the original redskin found his
way from Siberia into Alaska via the Dio
mede Islands and Seward’s Peninsula. It
is the theory of these searchers into the past
that the American Indian, the Aleut, the
Eskimo, and the other apparently distinct
races which populated the American conti
nent before the advent of Europeans were
originally of Asiatic origin.
Just how many centuries have elapsed
since the wanderings began have not been
estimated, but centuries never bother men
of science when they start out to develop a
theory. The scientists of the institution on
the Mall have ocular evidence to convince
any doubting Thomas that glyptodons, mas
todons and scores of other extinct crea
tures wandered all over the continent be
tween 20,000,000 B. C. and a period some
what later. They left bones and footprints
and other evidences which have proved
their presence in Arizona, Wyoming and
even up around Winnipeg. Then why is it
looked upon as impossible that there may
be a few human footprints and bones im
bedded in the rocks and glaciers of Alaska?
Perhaps in this very region!
When it is recalled that there is an un
interrupted and unbroken ice connection be
tween the Alaska coast and the Asiatic
mainland during many months of the win
ter it is not difficult to understand the ba
sis of the theory that the American Indian
was of Asiatic origin; nor is it hard to un
derstand that Dr. Hrdlicka has reason to
hope that he may find traces still existing
of these pioneers who were the ancestors
of all the first families of the continent.
It must not be forgotten, however, that
some of the most famous scientists of Har
vard started on a wild goose chase into the
northern wilds some twenty years ago.
3They were hunting for relics of Noah’s
Ark; Casey Moran, an irresponsible hum
orist of Fairbanks, Alaska, having sent
broadcast through the newspapers a yarn
to the effect that natives of Kotzebue had
described the discovery of numerous “pairs
of skeletons” corresponding to those sup
posed to have accompanied Noah in the
year of the big rain.
There is more literature available today
than at the time when “ ’Omer struck his
bloomin’ lyre,” and it is hoped that Dr. Hrd
licka will be able to tell the story of the
wanderings of the original immigrants in
porter space than was used by the old
Greek in his account of the journeys of Ul
ysses. Otherwise it will be difficult to in
trigue the reader.
It’s a little too early for picnics. There
are no ants to mix with the butter.
Seward Speaking:
Make your plans '*
now to spend the
4th of July in this
He-Man’s Town.
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