The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1896-05-28
LABRADOR THE NEXT
EXPLORING EXPEDITION TO LEAVE
PHILADELPHIA IN JUNE.

To study the Eskimo and Collect Flora and
Fauna-College Students In the Party.
Lieutenant Peary's Old Ship, the Kite, to
+ Take the Party-To Return In q Year.
An expedition bound for tbs interior
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. g.. h.
Perkins of the class of '95, 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 archHologist.
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, 1t is
thought, came from that place. Profess
or Hite of the University Of Pennsylva-
MIA, who is the originator of the expedi-
ton, said: 1.-THE party will leave Phila-
delphia about the middle of June. The
ten scientists who will join our party at
st. Johns will be sent out by DR.. G. T..
Mendenhall, superintendent of the Unit
ed States coast geological survey; Cen
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 Royal
Academy of Science, Sweden.
"These persons have supplied the
wherewithal for the researches of the
scientists for a period of one year. The
Kite, after leaving st. Johns, will
cruise around the gulf of st. Lawrence.
making collections at the south coast OF
Labrador, visiting the island Of Anti
cost for Eskimo remains, and will then
| go north along the eastern coast OF Lab
rador as far as Cape Chidley. Parties
will be left at various points along the
| CUdSl, suppllCO With toOAo anu C1oAP
ments necessary for their researches. At
| Clarence head, in James sound, Files
mere land, it is proposed to leave the
ten scientists, who will erect winter
quarters and general supply station
there. They will make explorations un-
til the six months of darkness come on,
when they will return to Clarence head,
starting out again in the spring 1t is
expected to explore at least 800 miles Of
Ellesmere Land, which in all probability
is the original home of the ancestors of
the present Greenland Eskimo, who
must have crossed to Greenland over
1000 years ago. Of these people the
scientists are DESTROYS Of finding traces.
1.-THE Kite will return to Labrador,
picking up the various parties, and then
keep on to st. Johns, arriving about
Sept. 10. She will return in 1897, car
rying the same number of people and
for the same purpose and will bring
home the party of scientists from Files
mere Land.
Professor Hite said that the university
cruise to India in September would pre-
vent his accompanying the expedition
to Labrador. -Philadelphia Press.