The Pioche weekly record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1877-1900, 1896-05-21
LABRADOR THE NEXT
EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO LEAVE
PHILADELPHIA IN JUNE.

To Study the Eskimo and Collect Flora and
Fsuna-cOIIsgs students In the Party.
Lieutenant Peary's Old Ship. the Kite, TO
Take the PArty-Io Return In n Year.
An expedition bound for the interior 1
Of Labrador will leave Philadelphia in |
June for the purpose Of studying the
Eskimo and collecting specimens Of the |
fora and fauna Of that region. q. II.
Perkins Of the class Of 80, University
of Pennsylvania, will be the command
er, and the remainder Of the party will
consist Of four students Of zoology, ge-
ology, botany and archaeology and
number of college students and others.
Professor Frank Russell, curator of
the University of Iowa. accompanies the
expedition as archeologist.
The trip from st. Johns, n. F., TO
Labrador will be made in the ship Kite.
At st. Johns the Philadelphia party
will be Joined by ten scientists sent out
to explore the coast of Ellesmere Land,
and also to discover traces Of the ances-
/ tors Of the Greenlanders, who, it is
thought, came from that place. Profess
or Hite OF the University Of Pennsyl Iva
MIA, who is the originator of the expedi-
ton, said: "The party will leave Phila-
delphia about the middle Of June. The
ten scientists who will join our party at
st. John will be sent out by DR.. Q. L.
Mendenhall, superintendent Of the Unit
ed States coast geological survey; Gen
eral A. W. Greedy, Baron Won Saurma'
jeltsch, ]. A. W. Grip, envoy extraor-
binary from Germany to Norway and
Sweden; J. W. Powell, director United
States geological survey, and Baron
Adolf Eric Nordenskjold Of the Roya
Academy of Science, Sweden.
"These persons have supplied thu
wherewithal for the researches Of thu
! scientists for period Of one year. Tit
Kite, after leaving st. Johns, will
i cruise around the gulf Of st. Lawrence
making collections at the south coast o
Labrador, visiting the island of Anti
7 cost for Eskimo remains, and will thel
3 go north along the eastern coast of Lab
rador as far as Cape Chidley. Partie
will be left at various points along tn
coast, supplied with tools and equip
ments necessary for their researches. A
Clarence head, in James sound, Files
mere land, it is proposed to leave tn
: ten scientists, who will erect winte
0 quarters and general supply static
o there. They will make explorations III
r til the six months Of darkness come Oh
when they will return to Clarence head
, starting out again in the spring. 1t
s expected to explore at least 800 miles {
Q Ellesmere Land, which in all probabilit
: is the original home Of the ancestors {
y the present Greenland Eskimo, WI
IS must have crossed to Greenland ov'
1000 years ago. OF these people IL
& scientists are DESTROYS Of finding trace
70 "The Kite will return to Labrado
rs picking up the various parties. and the
q keep on to st. Johns, arriving abo
ID Sept. ~. She will return in 1897, ca
" rying the same number Of people al
for the same purpose and will bril-
< home the party Of scientists from Ellie
mere Land.
to Professor Hite said that the universe
II. cruise to India in September would pl
vent his accompanying the expedite
to Labrador. -Philadelphia Press.