The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1912-01-15
MESSAGES COME
FROM EXPLORERS
Stcfansson-.Anderson Expedition
Has Been in Far North
Three Years.
NEW PEOPLES FOUND
Many Times Members Of Band
Have Faced Starvation in
Name OF Science.
NEW PEOPLES FOUND
Especial to The rlmcs..Dispatch.]

~
New York. January li.-From the
Far North, in the neighborhood of Cor.
onation Gulf and Victoria Island, have
come messages from Stefansson and
Anderson, leaders of the Arctic eXpcdi-
ton now making tour of exploration
for the American Museum of Natural
History and the Geological survey OF
the Canadian government.
I'VE have covered the las; mile geo
graphically that we set out TO cover.
and have found what we set out to
iird-a new people. more numerous
than any one thought possible" says
Mi Stefansson. In his reports forward
ca from the expeditions heuuuua rters
on the barren grounds OF Upper Dcasc
River.
The Stcfansson- Anderson expedition
has been absent from Sew YORK for
about three years and has covered a
region comparatively unknown and
hitherto unvisited by white men. Sew
eral times the members of this band
have faced starvation.
Most interesting perhaps OF their cx-
periences arc the discoveries OF sew
eral races OF new people, and ruin
cd villages formerly occupied BY Eskl-
mos and apparently abandoned from
t~ enty-hve to fifty years ago. The
inhabitants of these villages engaged
la whaling Judging from the bones OF
whales scattered about.
At Cape Bexley last May the explor-
ers came upon village of about iorty
snow houses, which apparently had re-
Gently been abandoned. Sled trails
leo north toward Victoria Land, whicn
is visible acress the strait everywhere
cast of Point Mise.
AS the explorers OF thc last cen.
fury never found people near here,
suppose village and trail evidence OF
visits OF Victoria Land people, who
hau come across the strait To gct DRIFT
WOOL says one OF the expedition
party in an account of the trip. Later
the expedition discovered another val
lage in the snowy son of tie north,
and people out sealing IN the middle
OF Dolphin and Union Strait
One of the messengers OF the cxpcdi-
tion approached the newly discovered
people, ana after narrow escape OF
being knifed by one OF tho party.
friendly negotiations were unJer,uKen.
There were th.rty-ninc members OF
the group. small part OF the A-ku-
L!-A-kat- Tag-Ml.Ut. According 10 the
employers neither they nor their fore
fathers ever had seen a white man.
The winter hcmc of these people is
In the MIDDLE OF the strait north Of
Cape Bcxley, but In the summer they
hum inland south of the cane
II was discovered by members OF the
expedition that OF the 1000 Eskimos
on the two sides OF Coronation Gulf
and Dolphin and Union Straits. not
more than twenty men ever had seen
white man, thus representing less
contact with the white race than the
people OF any other part of the cx-
plored Arcticts.
The Cape Pcary region, full OF game,
sixty years ago, is now gameless, and
deserted and the copper mine region
has not 10 per cent. OF the number
OF caribou OF Richardson's time. 1t .s
estimated that in ten years 1t Will be
practically impossible to live on the
country while travelling in these re-
mote wilds.
In May. Stefansson crossed over to
Victoria Land, where he discovered
Scandinavian-like people called the
liza Ne Rag -Mi-Ut They are described
as North European people. One Of
the Alaskan Eskimo guides said in
commenting upon their appearance:
They are not Eskimo: they arc
fo'c'sle men. Two of them had chin
boards described as light and turning
to red. and all had light eyebrows"
Specimens of rich iron ore from Vic
toria Land. north OF Cape Boiey, havo
been gathered by the expedition, and
copper is picked UP frequently By the
natives in the Coronation Gulf dis
trict
Mr.. Stefansson spent several months
on the lower Horton River, and about
the same time on the Coppermine He
thinks that the Horton River Is fully
as large stream as the Coppermnc
A survey has been made Of Horton
River from the nearest place, Lang
ton Bay, to within seventy miles OF
Bear Lake.
IT Is the present plan of the expedi-
ton 10 remain in the field another year
because of the great opportunities for
the pursuit of their work That there
Is Il possibility OF Franklin's men hav-
ing survived for time is suggested
in the evidence at various places of
people bearing the names of white
men, In most of the communities some
OF the natives are named .'Nerk.
which. translated from Eskimo to Eng
fish. is Ned"