Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1909-01-14
FIRST WHITE VISITORS
Washington Scientists Pene-
trate Canadian .wl|ds.
EXPLORE FAR NORTHWEST
Carnegie Expedition Reaches Point
Above the Sixtieth Parallel.
FOUND THE NATIVES FRIENDLY
Their Hospitality Sincere il Not
Wholly Agreeable to Explorers.
Region Desolate One.
EXPLORE FAR NORTHWEST
FOUND THE NATIVES FRIENDLY

Penetrating the interior of British Co.
lumbia to a point north Of the sixtieth
parallel. party of the Carnegie Institu-
TONS magnetic survey reached a point
never before touched by white men and
got back without any casualties. c. c..
Stewart and ]. P. Ault constituted the
party, having with them only some Indian
and half breed guides. Mr.. Stewart has
now returned to the institution in WASH
ington and is working up the observa-
tions obtained on the trip. The journey
occupied all Of last summer till late in
the fall and covered a round Of about
1000 miles outside the limits of civiliza-
ton.
The two observers went to the little
town of Prince Albert on the Canadian
Pacific railroad In the province of Sas-
katchewan and from there struck north
into the wilds. They had letters Of intro
duction to the Hudson Bay Trading Com
pany, that remarkable organization that
has held its place in the great Canadian
northwest since 173O. They followed up
the line of the trading posts west of
Hudson bay, but they went beyond the
limits even of the great fur company and
hobnobbed with the Esquimaux north Of
the sixtieth parallel. tribe that had
never seen any white men except the one
d
whose territory white men had never
come before.
The party took a big canoe on one of
tho rivers running north from Prince
Albert and from that time were outside
the confines Of civilization. They met a
few of the Canadian northwest mounted
police. but soon left even them behind,
for. as kipling says. there's never law
of God or man runs north of 53, and
they were sobn In a country where their
hands had to keep their heads
Country a Barren Waste.
Mr.. Stewart, in speaking of their ex-
periences said that they found the coun-
try a remarkable sort of wilderness. 1t
was hilly without being mountainous. But
one of the peculiarities was that there
was no surface SOIL 1t was all rock, bare
and forbidding. There were a fair num-
Der of trees. You might term all the
country wooded. but the trees grew sim
ply in the assures Of the rocks and were
Japanese use In their miniature gardens.
The river ran into lake and the lake
into another river. There were more
lakes and more rivers and portages be-
tween them at the rate Of at least one
day. There were plenty of ducks and
sort Of life. They lived mostly on ducks
as far as meat went, though they had
along little bacon and flour. recruiting
their supplies from the Hudson Bay posts
They left the last of the larger posts at
Du Brochet, about half way to their
Journeys end, and here they we're out.
fitted with fresh provisions and given q
letter of Introduction to the last OF the
northern posts, where a son Of the chief
factor for the region lived alone, except
for an Indian family who did his cooking
and washing for him. This was, known
as Husky Post, as desolate a spot on the
outside OF civilization as it would be pos
sible to find. Here there were about nine
months of winter and three of the apology
for summer that they have in that lati-
tude.