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SOMEWHERE IN ALASKA
—Sergeant Simeon Oliver, who
is half Eskimo and half Norwe
gian, and who has written a best
selling book about it, and who
has made quite a success as a
pianist on the concert stage, and
who is the foremost living ex
pert on the Aleutian Islands, and
who — consequently — is of
considerable value to the Army
in Alaska, likes to tell American
soldiers at advanced Aleutian
bases what they should know a
bout foraging.
Considering what the general
conception of the Aleutians a
mounts to this would seem like a
pretty hopeless project. Any
body who reads the newspapers
knows that the Aleutians are
(nothing but bleak, wind-blasted
volcanic mountain peaks that
stick their snow^ crests Into fog
gy northern skies.
Simeon says they’re rich —
rich — in edibles.
Simeon learned about the A
leutians and Alaska by virtue of
being a native. His father (as
his book, “Son of the Smoky
Sea” relates) found his mother
when she was a little girl —
buried under a pile of fox furs
on a dog sled in a raging bliz
zard.
The elder Mr. Oliver was a
• Norwi gian who had come to
Alaska as a young man to trap
and fish and make a home far
from the discord of civilization
On the day of his discovery of
the lit t ie girl, he had been out
with his own dog team to bring
in the winter’s catch of fox. It
was a little Eskimo girl, and her
father lay frozen to death. Mr.
Oliver took “Kueuit” back to
I the settlement only to find that
her mother was dead too So he
had her taken care of by Ameri
can friends nearby, sent her to
the States to be educated and
later married her. She gave
r
birth to "Nutchuk.”
Many years later, Nutchuk
was a resident of New York.
Known as Simeon Oliver, he was
a friend of celebrities, earned
his living on the concert stage,
wrote stories and books and lect
ured. He was successful and can
prove it by hig three-inch listing
in ‘‘who’s who”. He was also a
very busy Eskimo, but not so
busy that he couldn’t find time
to return every other year t*
study and live with the natives
in his ‘ homeland.”
‘‘The Aleutians abound in food
if you know where to find it,”
he says.
i
Jurat ot all, the Aleutians in
particular and Alaska in general
are the greatest salmon spawn
ing grounds in the world.
“I am not suggesting,” he
says, ‘‘that a lost soldier can
catch himself a salmon and eat
it, but come to think of it, there
is nothing wrong with this idea.
You don’t even need a hook and
line. You can hit any one of the
thousands of 8- to 70-pound sal
mon that even the smallest
stream abounds in wiih the butt
of a rifle. If the soldier is not in
a position to cook the fish, the e
are certain parts, notably a sec
tion of the head ca'led ‘chung
hee’. which are good iaw.
You know just where to look
and just where to grab and you
can get all kinds of delicious sea
Foods — clams, mollusks and
seal on the beaches, cod, halibut,
pogy, crab and octopus in the
ocean and trout and salmon in
the streams.
It is expected, of course, that
‘lost” Americans will be inland,
ind there will not always be the
opportunity to forage on the
oeaches or in the streams.
In this connection, Simeon
ells of the amazing number of
wild growths available for emer-!
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