The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1890-09-21
/ UNKNOWN CANADA.
waters Of the Yukon and
Mackenzie Explored.
= Alaska BOUNDARY MARKED.
90 Geld Fields Are on British Doil-
No Timid Indisns-Giant Carl
bon Trampis the Moss.


New York 0un.
lrrv energetic and intrepid explorur
~ penetrstes Africa and does good vork
% sbe vast and little-known countries OF
- Dark Continent 10 certain to see his
- heralded through the civilized world
- - comes home. Unfortunatefv.
- are few other parts of the world
800 equal merit, enterprise. and self.sac-
- receive ct the hands of the public an
- nsasure Of appreciation.
III, Is particularly true of our own con-
Int where much exploratory work stiIl
~nains to be done. How many Of the
r.ders Of the San have ever heard Of M.
VILLAIN Ogilvie Of the Canadian land sur.
NJ Very likely not one in . hundred.
20 vet over . year and half have elapsed
80 bis return to Ottawa from the n,osf
se1evorthy travels that have been made
8 long time in North America. The
uodsst traveller. who describes his al.
untures in the most unpretentious Ian.
80. b really entitled to rank among thu
- explorers of the century. He vas as.
E - Rom civilization nearly two yesrs
I 5r,i.e which he made instrumental ana
80 suryeya, covering q distance of q 70n
11n. IN . wild and almost unexpIored
Grnf5y, some portions of which IL H cer.
nbNere never visited by white man be-
J f6nding from the Pacific steamer ~
0akoot, on the coast of Alaska, in Nav.
~ his exploratory surveys were pushed
RI hmdreds of miles down the LNwes-
Yskon river, then up the Tat-on-duc. Por.
epine, Bell. Trout and Peel rivers to the
I n1eksnzie. and finally up the Mckenzie
~, along the g1eat system Of
- md tributaries, until he reached OF
hxs again in January last year. The re-
nj Of his long wanderings has recenfiv
IN published by the Canadian deparf.
nent Of the interior, and from that report
~ brief account OF them Is taken.
Most Of our Information, with regard ia
- great regions through which OgiIvie
wandered, was derived from the agents of
~ HUDSON Bay Company. who EXPLORED
~ rivers and crossed mountain regions
otablishing here and there tradinc.nosts
vAsre they might buy the furs collected bv
Ipdians. Some very interesting facts are
unnected with the names We see upon The
naps. In the Lewes river. for instance
shich with the Peily forms the head strea ns
dthe Yukon, We see an expansion of the
aysam which is called Lake Lahsrrss
Il Was named for Mike Labaree. Who
b 1861. WAS sent by the Western Union
telegraph Company to explore . routs
through British Columbia and Alaska for
~ purpose of stringing . telegraph line
essr the continent and across Behrinv
Unit to Asia. and thence to Europe. He
I'D nearly reached this lake when word
tkat had bent sent hundreds of miles. came
= him that the Atlantic cable had been
SUCCESSFULLY laid, and the company had
Aersfore abandoned its scheme. The com.
pny thereupon in great haste sent for La
barge and It's other agents to recall them
hum their explorations.
On the Pelly river Mr.. Ogilvie found the
ehimneys still standing Of the station built
b Campbell over forty years ago, when he
discovered that the Pelly river was idenfj-
ed with the Yukon, and built the post
hon which he was finally driven by no.
tb Indians. The Porcupine, Bell and
nvslal other rivers near or north of che
ATctc circle. and explored by Oeilvie.
Nm named By Mr.. Bell, another famous
s9rnt Of the Hudson Bay Company: bnt
Use discoveries made so long ago were