New Britain herald., 1916-09-12

ARCTIC RESIDENTS
 BECOME DISHONEST
Explorer Finds Them Addicted to
 Petty Thieying, He Says

Seattle, Wash, Sept. 12.-The steamship Northwestern arrived here yesterday afternoon with the members of the southern party of the Canadian arctic expedition which for the last three years has been carrying out a program of scientific investigation along the north coast of the American continent under the direction of Dr. R. M. Anderson. With Dr. Anderson are J. J. O'Neil, geologist; J. R. Cox topographer; D. Jenness, ethnologist and George H. Wilkins, photographer The other two of the scientific staff K. G. Chipman, chief geographer and Fritz Johansen, naturalist, are jour- neying to Ottawa by other routes.
 The men of the expedition are in perfect health and show little evil dence of having endured the rigors of arctic conditions for so long a period. When they were asked if they were not happy to be once more restored to the conveniences of civilization, they smiled, but unanimously agreed that although they had had many unusual experiences they could not complain of exceptional hardship or priva- tions.
 Dr. Anderson was asked if he had noticed any difference in the de- Il visited them.
 At the present time" he said, CT should say that they are less honest than l gave them credit for being when l visited them first in 1911 Beg glng and petty pilfering seem to be more common than I found them at that time. They are in general very hospitable and kindly disposed to strangers and are anxious for white men to come in with trading mater ials. I do not think that they have had, as yet, enough contact with white men to change their nature or demeanor very much'
 Did you find much bird life in the neighborhOod of your bases D. he was asked
 Our station for the first year at Colllnson Point, Alaska" he said, was fairly rich in bird life, for the arctic but our later station on the south side of Dolphin and Union Straits was 1 exceedingly scanty in both plant and bird life. Certain parts of Coronation Gulf and Southern Victoria Land are more favorable. I have been able to extend the knowledge of the range of a number of species. We have a good | collection of most of the species of 1 the region. Some of our collections | have already been received at Ottawa, l but the bulk of them, including a l number from the northern section of l the expedition, are with us on the | steamship, and will be forwarded to i Ottawa at the first opportunity"
 MT. O'Nefll, the geologist. was asked l if the three years of isolation did not 1 drag wearily.
 Not in the least." he said: "but | then there was so much to be done | when conditions were favorable for 1 field work and during the winters the | time passed quickly, since we had an 1 abundance of reading matter, and con- results and preparing for the next seasons work.
 "Whenever possible we depended l on the country for supplies at least for dog food but on many occasions we ourselves were glad to exchange our concentrated diet for the food of the country such as seal meat, car ibOu meat, and sometimes seal blub- Der, for one relishes a fair amount of fat with ones meats in the arctic" The investi gations of the Corona tiOn Gulf district are exceptionally promising, particularly in deposits of native copper. The copper deposits of Bathurst Inlet are of low grade type The copper occurs in a series of amygda1oidal lavas, with a total thickness of several hundred feet In many of these, native copper is found distributed throughout the rock, and also in veins.