Arizona republican., 1902-10-03
GLAzIER's LATEST DISCOVERY.
Another Pilgrimage With the Usual As
 tOnishng Results.

Captain W. Glazier has usually been able to report some more or less start ling discovery upon his return. One of these notable finds made him famous. He said that he had discovered the sources of the Mississippi river in a lake south of LaNe Itaska. and he hon. ored the noteworthy sheet of water by giving his name to it. Minnesotans took Captain Glazier much too serious ly. and even went so far as to repuGi- ate him and and his lake by an act of legislation. They said the lake was nothing more nor less than a little pond a mile or two south of Lake ftaska, into which it emptied. and that for many years it had been known ana mapped as Deer Lake. They declined to permit Captain Glazier to rechristen the lake or add his own name to geo graphic nomenclature within the bor- ders of the state; so Deer Lake it re- mains.
 A few months ago printed circular was sent to the newspapers announcing that Captain Glazier was about to lead an exploring party into the wilds of Labrador region that was almost un- known, and it was expected that inter esting geographic results would be ob- tained. The party has now returned home from its summer jaunt barring Labrador mosquitoes. which have singularly bad reputation, it is pre- sumed the excursiOnists had very good time. They were not overladen with geographic discoveries, but have brought home one exhibit that is re- ceiving considerable advertisement in the newspapers.
 According to Mir. Perrigo of Chicago, who defines the leader of the party as the man who placed the source of the Mississippi river in Lake Glazier." a ] hitherto unknown river was discovered on the northeastern coast of Labrador We found the mouth of our river" MT. | Perrigo is represented as saying, lat | the head of Main Bay. The tip came ! from a guide who knew in a general l way where it could be found, and we | determined to follow it" Then he tells how the Glazier explorers found the | river to consist mainly of a series of 1 long, narrow lakes. connected by rapids. and how they ascended the stream for many miles.
 The gentleman fails to mention the most curious thing about the river. and that is how the white men living right near the river, at the town of Main. on that very bay, left it for the Glazier expedition to discover it's existence. | Main is entitled to rank among the old settlements in America; it is the oldest l Moravian mission station in Labrador having been founded in I'll, or five years before the revolutionary war be- gan; it has been the home of white men ever since. and is today one of the six Moravian settlements in Labrador, among which about 1,400 Esquimeau converts to Christianity are living. These missionaries are very intelligent men, and are even doing a little work that is appreciated in the scientific world. Dr. Boas of the Museum of Natural History wrote some years ago:
 Since Koch's visit to Labrador. me- neurological observations are being made at all the missionary stations of the Labrador coast. which are of par
 ticular value as filling the wide gap be-
 tween the system in Canada and tn, | Danish stations in Green land.''
 The Glazier party apparently brough
 back neither the name nor a map O
 the river, which would be quite mex
 cusable in such competent explorers I cartographers really needed name O
 map for their atlas sheets of Labra
 dor. But the map-makers can get alonj
 very well with the information con 9 corning this river they have been usinI
 for many years.
 The fact is that the missionaries hay
 been on familiar terms with the rive
 for over century, and Dr. R. Koch
 description of it antedates that of tn
 Glazier party by nearly twenty years
 It may be found in the Deutsch Geo
 graphische Blatier for 1884, pages 15l
 163. The name of the river is the Kaub
 konga, or Kauk. Dr. Koch said that
 was a type of all Labrador rivers, bein
 chain of lakes connected by rapids O
 cataracts. The physical aspects of tn
 river may be seen on any good m--~ C