The Manning times. [volume] (Manning, Clarendon County, S.C.) 1884-current, 1912-01-24
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NEVER SAW WALTZ EOLk

I>pe.litioIl Making q Tour IL ENpio-
ration for the American Museum
OF Natural History and Geological
Survey OF Canadian Government
Claim to Eaye round New Race.
From the far North, in the neigh
pcrhood OF Coronation Gulf and Vic
tcri2 Island, nave come messages
from Stetansson an:l Anderson, lead
IS OF the Arctic expedition, no" max
i;.g TOUR OF exploration for the
american Museum OF Natural HIS
tory and the Geological S2rve; OF the
Canadian government.
We have covered the last nlle
seosra phically that We Set out TO COW
er and have found what We set OUT
K fnd-a new people, more nomef-
Gus than any one thought possible
SAYS Mr.. Stefansson in his reports
forwarded from the expectation S
headquarters on the barren GROUNDS
ct Upper DeaSe River.
The Stefaasson-S nderson expeo1-
ton has been absent from New YORK
for about three years, and has COW
cred a region conn., a,atively Unknown
and hitherto unvisited by white men.
Several times the members OF this
band have faced starvation.
Most interesting perhaps Of their
experiences are the discoveries OF
several races Of rev people and
ruined villages formerly occupied by
Eskimos, and apparently abandoned
f.. ON twenty-five to fifty years ago.
The inhabitants OF these villages en-
saged in whaling judging from the
bones Of whales scattered aoout.
At Cape Bexley 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 Lano
wkich is visible across the strait eV'
ervwhere east Of Point Wise.
LAS the explorers Of the last cen
tury never found people near here
7 suppose village and trail evidence
of visit Of Victoria Land people, who
tad come across the strait to gel
6riftwood,' says one Of the expedl-
ton party in an account OF the trip
Later the expedition discovered an
other village in The snowy region OF
the north, and people out sealing II
the middle OF Dolphin and Unior
Strait.
One Of the messengers Of the eS
pedition then approached the neWl!
discovered people ard alter narrow
escape of being knitted by one OF thf
party friendly negotiations we're IN
Gsrtaken.
There were thicty-nine N memoers O.
the group, a small part Of the A-ku
L-a-kat-tag-mi-ut According to the
explorers neither they nor their fore
fathers had ever seen a wnl,s man.
The winter home Of these people
is in the middle O. the trai! nortt
Of Cape Bexley. bu1 in the sunne'
they hunt inland south OF the cape
It was discovered by members o
the expedition that Of the 1000 Es
kinos on the two sizes OF Coronation
Gulf and Dolphin and Union strait:
not more than twenty men had eve
seen white man, thus representing
less contact with the white race thar
the people OF any ether part CT tn'
exploited Arctics.
The Capt. Peary region. full O.
game sixty years ago, is no" game
less and deserted. and the Copper
mine region has 40: 10 per cent O
the number Of Caribou OF Richard
sons time. 1t is estimated that II
ten years it will b practically I'm
possible to live on the country while
travelling in these remote wilds.
In May Stafa1nson crossed ovel
lt. Victoria Land, where he discov
cred Scandinavian:ike people calico
tie Ha-ne-rag- They are de
scri5ed as a North European people
One of the Alaska.. Eskimo guide:
said in commenting upon their ap
pearance:
They are not Eskimo, they are
to'c'sle men Two Of them lad chlI
boards described as light and turn
ing TO red and al had light eye
hrows."
Specimens Of rich iron ore from
Victoria Land, north OF Cape BeX
lev, have been gathered by the ex
petition. and coppe- is picked up fre
quently by the natives in the Coro
nation Gulf district.
Mr.. Stefannson spent severa
months on the lower Horton rivel
and abou. the same time on the Cop
permine. He thinks that the Horton
river is fully as larse stream as the
Coppernine A survey has beer
made of Horton river from the place
nearest Langton Bay to within sew
enty miles of Bear Lake.
It is the present plan OF the ex
pedition to remain in the field an
ether year because Of the great op
rortunities for the pursuit Ct thell
work. That there IS possibility Q.
Frank!in's men hav'ng survived fol
time is suggested in the evidence
at various places OF people bearing
the names Of white men. II most
Of the communities some Of the na'
t:ves are named "E,.k,'' which trans.
lated from Eskimo to English Is
Ned"
SHOOTING 1T COLEAiHIA