The Colfax gazette. [volume] (Colfax, Wash.) 1893-1932, 1902-08-15
Especial Correspondents. ]

Last Three Months.
Especial Correspondence
Halifax, n. S., July 26.-With ten
students from New England colleges,
Colonel Willard G. Glazier has left
here On a three months exploring ex-
petition into the wilds of Labrador.
Colonel Glazier is known to fame as
the man who several years ago ex-
plored the headwaters Of the Mississip-
pi and claimed to have discovered an
other source than Lake Itasca as the
true beginning of the Father of Wa
ters.
Very little is known Of the interior of
Labrador. The country itself has an
area of about 10000 square miles,
which is equal to the united areas of
the British isles, France and Prussia.
To cross this waste and to discover
what possibilities in the nature of hui
man interest are there hidden are the
designs of the GlaZier expedition. The
first stops will be at Sydney and st.
Johns, n. f. At the latter place stay
OF three or four days will be necessary
to aud to the equipment and to engage
boat to meet the expedition at I'm
garva bay about three months hence.
The start in Labrador will be made
at Hamilton inlet, to which place the
party will be taken in a fishing boat
from st. Johns. Colonel Glaciers in
tention is to ascend the Grand river to
its junction with the Northwest river
and follow this watercourse until the
blight of the land is reached.
The course then will be down the
George, the Great Whale or some other
waterway to the east coast of the pen
insula. These plans, however may be
changed as it is not possible to map
out fixed route.
His majesty Edward VII, the gov
ernOr general Of Canada and the gov
ernor of Newfoundland have all signi-
fed a special interest in the Glazier ex-
pedition as well as the Geological Sur
vey society of Ottawa. EncOurage cement
has been given also by the Royal Geo
GRAPHICAL society of London, the Ameri-
can Geographical society and scientific
men generally in Great Britain, France
and the United States
The interior of the country has been
but very little explored, and even the
course of the main rivers is largely a
matter of conjecture.
The largest known river is the Ash
wanipi or Hamilton. 1t drains por-
tion of the vast interior tableland and
empties into Hamilton inlet, on the At
lantic coast. One hundred miles from
its mouth are the great falls and about
twenty miles of rapids. Up this river
the party will penetrate to the interior
Being the summer season, dogs and
sledges will be out of the question
There are no horses in Labrador; cOnse
quently canoes will have to be used.
What white inhabitants there are in
the country are of Canadian descent
There are Indians in the interior be-
longing to the tribes of upper Canada.
These will be used as guides and car
riers by the Glazier expedition, ar
rangements having been made for the
engagement of twenty at Hamilton.
Besides Colonel Glazier, in the party
are George Harlow Clarke, who was Il
member Of the Peary expedition to arc
tic regions in 1898; Charles Manning
Donohue, who will be the practical
civil and mining engineer of the expe-
dition; Robert B. Bellamy, Wilbur w.
Fisk, John Daniels. who will make eth
nology and zoology his special study;
Henry E. Berry, Leonard G. Aechtlier,
William P. Bates, Captain Charles H.
Perrigo and Leland Griggs.
Mr.. Clarke will act as quartermaster.
Captain Perrigo will act as commissary.
He is member Of the board Of health,
mining engineer of the expedition and
is the representative from Tufts col
lege. Wilbur W. Fisk, the secretary of
the party, represents Boston university
from which institution he was gradu-
ated in 1901. The past year he has
spent in travel through the south.
Henry E. Berry is the representative
of the Massachusetts Institute of Tech
the birds and skins Of the larger ami
mails Of Labrador. John Daniels repre-
sents Harvard and is a student of po-
litical economy and sociology.
RICHARD J. HAYILAND.
TOLD OF AUTHORS.