The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1912-01-15
FIND new PEOPLE
FAR-0FF NORTH
sTEFANssON AND ANDERSON SAIU
TO HAVE AADD DISCOVERY 4
IN ARCTIC
NEVER SEEN WHITES
LIVE NEAR CAMP UlxEY ANu
WORK AT sEALgNG-Ex-
PLORERs TO REsiAlN
NEVER SEEN WHITES
LIVE NEAR CAMP slxEY ANp

NEW YORK, Jan. 1l-From the
far North, IN the ne9shbof GOOD OF Cor
onattoH 1utf and vfcturla island, nave
coa,c messages from SlelAusson and
! 4srlucrscii, ieaaers OF the ArcIic 0xpe.
dition now making tour Of explora-
ton for The American Meaeum Of
! Natural h.story anu the Geologtcal
Survey Of the Canadian government.
" = have covered the last mile geo.
grapnlcaliy .ha. We set out 70 cover
ana have founa what VIC SGT out to md
IA new people, more numerous than
any ono tnou8ht possible says Mr.
, stefansson In his reports forwarded
from the expedition headquarters on
, the barren erounus OF Upper Deazs
! hiver.
, The Stefansson- Anderson expedi-
ton has been absent fiom New York
for ABOUT three years. and has COW
cred region comparatively unknown
and hitherto nvisited by white mon.
Several times the members Of this band
have faced starvation. ai
Find huinsd Villages.
Most interesting perhaps Ut their ex-
periences are the al coyeries Of several
races Of new people and ruined VIII
lagos formerly occupied by Eskimos.
. anu apparently abandoned from TWEEN
! ty-tive to nfty years ago.
The Inhabitants OF these villages en-
gagged In whaling judging from the
bones OF whales scattered about.
At Cape kexley last May the ex-
plorers came upon q village OF about
forty snow houses. which apparently
! had recently been abandoned. Sled
trails led north toward Victoria Land.
| which II visible across the strait
I everywhefe east Of Point Wise.
| As the explorers Of the last CEN
fury never found people near here.
l suppose village and trail evidence
OF visit OF Victoria Land people, who
had come across the strait to get
driftwood." rays one Of the expedition
party In an account of the trip. Later
| the expedition discovered another
village In the snowy region Of the
| north. and people out sealing IN the
middle OF Dolphin and Union Strait
On Friendly Re1ations.
One Of the messengars Of the ex.:
pedition then approached the newly
| discovered people and after y narrow
/ escape Of being knitted by one OF tho
party friendly negotiations were un.
/ dcrtaken.
There were thlrty-n,ne members Of
| the group, q small part OF the A.ku-
| liza kat tag -mi-ut. According 70 the
explorers neither they nor their fore-
] fathers had ever seen white man.
The winter home OF these people
10 in the middle Of the strait north
| Of Cape Bexiey. but IN the summer
| they hunt inland south OF the cape.
1t was discovered BY members ct
| tho expedition that OF the 1.000
Eskimos on the two sidee Of Corona
| ton Gulf and Dolphin and Union
| straits not more than twenty men
had ever seen q white man. thus rep-
| resenting less contact with the white
| race than the people of any other
| part OF the explored Arctics.
| The Cape Parry region. full OF
game sixty years ago. II now game
less and deserted. and the Copper
mine region has not 10 per cent OF
the number OF caribou Of Richard.
| sons time. It II estimated that in
ten years It Will be practically I'M
possible to live on the country whiie
| travelling In these remote wilds.
Cro~ees 70 Victoria.
| In May Stefannson crossed over to.
Victoria Land, where he discovered
a Scandinavianlike people called the
Ha-ne-rag- mi-ut. They are described
az North European people. One OF
the Alaskan Eskimo guides said in
| commenting upon their appearance;
They are not Eskimo. they ARC
TO c'sle men. Two OF them had chin
| boards described as light and turn
Ink to red. and all had light eye
| brows."
Specimens OF rich iron ore from
| Wet orla Land. north OF Cape BexIsy.
have been gathered by the expedi-
tition. and copper IL picked up frc-
quently by the natives In the Corona
| ton Gulf district.
| Sfr. StIfHnns0n spent SeverUf
months on the L,wer Horton river
and about the Same dina on the
Coppermine. He thinks that the
Horton river u fully a. large stream
~ the Coppermine. A survey has
been made OF Horton river from
the place nearest Langton Fay %
within seventy miles OF Bear Lake.
It Ia tho present plan Of the ex.
petition to remain In the field an-
other year because OF the great op-
portunities for the pursuit OF their
| work. That there Ii q possibility
Of Franklin's men having survived
for a time II suggested In the evi-
dencs At various places Of people
bearing the names Of white men. In
| most Of the communities some Vt the
natives ara named ''Nerk.' which
| translated from Eskimo to English
| II Med"