The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1912-01-14
new PEOPLE FOUND
IN THE FAR NORTH
StefansSOn and Anderson Said to
Have Made the Discovery
in the Arctic.
HAD NEVER SEEN WHITES
They Live Near Cape Bike! and Morh
AT Scalin.-ExpOrerS
to Stay On.

From the far ncrth, in the neigh
borhood of Coronation Gulf and Victoria
leland have come messages from Stef-
ansson and Anderson, leaders of the
Arctic expedition now making a tour of
exploration for the American Museum
of Natural History and the Geological
Survey of the Canadian Government
We have covered the last mile geo
graphically tha, we Sc, out to cover and
have found wha' we set out to find a new
people more numerous than any one
thought possible SAYS Mr., Stefansson
in his reports forwarded from the ex-
pedition's headquarters on The barren
grounus of Upper Dease River
The Stefansson- Anderson expedition
has been absent from New York for about
three wears. and has covered a region
comparatively Unknown and hitherto
unvisited by white men Several times
the members Of this band have faced
starvation
Most interesting perhaps of their eX-
periences are the discoveries of several
races Of new people" and ruined villages
formerly occupied by Eskimos, and ap-
parently abandoned from twenty five to
fifty years ago.
The inhabitants Of these villages en-
gagged in whaling Judging from the bones
of whales scattered about
At Cape Bexley last May the explorers
came upon a village of about forty snow
houses, which apparently had recently
been abandoned Sled trails led north
toward Victoria Land. which is visible
! acI oss the strait everywhere east of
| Point Wise.
As the explorers cf the last century
never found people near here, l suppose
village and trail evidence of visits of
Victoria Land people, who had come
one OF the expedition party in an
account of the trip. Later the expedite n
discovered another village in the snowy
region Of the north, and people out sealing
in the middle Of Dolphin and Union Strait
One CT the messengers of tho expedi-
tion then approached the newly dis
covered people. and after a narrow es-
cape Of being knitted by one Of the party
friendly negotiations were undertaken,
There were thirty nine members of the
group, smell part Of the A-ku-li-a-kat- :
tag -mi-ut According to the explorers
neither they nor their forefathers had
ever seen white man
| The winter home OF these people ia in
the middle Of the strait north OF Cape
beSiey. but in the summer they hunt
inland south of the cape.
| 1t was discovered by members of the
expedition that of the 1 900 Eskimos on
the two sides of Coronation Gulf and
Dolphin and Union straits not more than
J twenty mon had ever seen a white man
thus representing 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. is now gameless and de-
serted and the Coppermine region has
OF Richardson's time. 1t is estimated
that in ten years it will be practically i'm
possible to live on the country while
| travelling in these remote wilds.
In May Stefannson crossed over tn
Victoria Land, where he discovered a
Ha-n rag -mi-ut They are described
as North European people. One Of