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...Grenfell first started his mission work 30 years ago, after having worked for several years among the fishermen of the North Sea and Irish Coast. He began his work entirely alone, by going from village to village and giving whatever medical aid he could. Being financed by the British Deys Lea Mission, he was able to gradually increase the scope of his work. Year after year he added more and more workers to his organization until now he is able to clothe, educate, and give medical aid to ten thousand people, scattered along about 600 miles of coast line...
...great amount of labor is required to keep up the various organizations connected with his work, and for many years college men from Harvard, Yale, and Princeton have volunteered to do this work. The duties of a volunteer are extremely interesting, including, among other things, cruises along the coast, and instructive work among the natives...
...approach of Christmas. His real reasons, however, are certainly not altruistic. First of all the offer is accompanied by the hitch that France content herself with a reparation of only fifteen to twenty billion marks, a decided fall from per present demand. England is tired watching the mark coast downhill; she wants to establish trade again with Germany under conditions more certain and less fluctuating and sporadic than they are now. Facing dangerous possibilities of the complete diplomatic face-about in Black Sea affairs,--Turkey's alliance with the arch enemy Russia,--England finds that her friendship with France needs...
...length of his lecture in the Union at 8 o'clock tonight, Colonel H. K. Eustace will describe his recent expeditions in Africa. In the course of 27 years' experience in the dark continent, Colonel Eustace has penetrated the interior of Morocco, Algiers, the Soudan, and all the East Coast territories. In connection with his business of procuring elephant tusks, he searched continually for the "graveyards" of the beasts, which were known to exist because no elephant has ever been found dead of old age, but which had never been discovered. After many years of exploration in search of these...
...Eskimos now left on the Labrador are as peaceful a race as can well be found anywhere. Secondly with the possible exception of the Hudson Straits region, some six hundred miles north of Cartwright, Labrador has no wandering tribes of Eskimos. Labrador Eskimos live in scattered villages along the coast, of which only some very small ones, few and far-between, are found nearer than a hundred and fifty miles to the North. In the third place, with the possible exception of this Northern Straits tribe, Eskimos do not live in the interior of Labrador, the purported home...