The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1921-06-10
EXPLORER TRAPPED
4 YEARS in ARCTIC;
GOES NORTH AGAIN
Captain Bernard Sails From Seattle
for New Dash Into Icy Region; Says
Natives Being Wiped Out
CT Ice-bound four years in the Arctic.
On Capt. Joseph F. Bernard didn't know u. S. was in
CT Didn't know war was over.
C Didn't know several other wars had started.
U He leaves Seattle for more thrilling adventures in
the frozen North.

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mustachcs. which distin nguish them
from the bulk OF Eskimos.
That the Arctic ocean peoples are
t,eing wiped out by disease and con-
tact with civilization
That the food and clothing produc-
ing caribou Is being exterminated.
inat within 10 years the Canadian
government will be compelled to
clothe and provision the natives to
keep them alive.
SIBERIAN ESKIMOS
INVADED ALASKA
That Tartar warriors Of Mongolia
in the early days Of history showed"
the upper tier OF Siberian Eskimos
across the narrow channel Of Bering
straits into Northern Alaska
That fierce battles between IN
vaders and natives took place. with
victory for the horde Of invaders.
That the defeated natives pushed
farther into the Eastern Arctic
That subsequent wars between
various tribes and the custom of
retaining captive women gave an
the Arctic region n common Ian
g,iage base. aitho each separate dis.
trict has dialect OF its own.
That natives In the region OF King
williams Land today have relics Of
the expeditions of Sir John Ross,
1928, and Sir John Franklin. l845-
48.
Commanding the Schooner Teddy
Bear. Capt. bernard set out from
Nome on August "a. 1915. with four
men. on an anthropologicai expcdi.
ton into the Far North. He car.
ried provisions for two years. intend.
ing to come out at the end Of that
time for supplies.
FIRST CAMP ON
CORO GULF
Beyond Bcring straits he rounded
Point Barrow. and stopped at Her.
schei island. where Royal Canadian
Mounted Police act as customs OF.
ficials for the Northwest Territories.
He continued to Coronation gulf and
established winter quarters. approx.
mately 1.i00 miles from Nome. Dur
ing the spring and summer he car.
rled on his work In that region and
In August turned westward on the
way to the outside.
Thick Ice In Dolphur and Union
straits hemmed him in.
The Teddy Bears direction was re-
versed and Capt. Bernard started
eastward. hoping to find an open
channel along the Arctic Islands to
the Atlantic.
AUGUST IS. 1917, PROVED A
FATEFUL DAY FOR THE ExPE-
DITION. THE SHORT SPACE OF
TWO HOURS MEANT A STAY OF
WEARY MONTHS ON THE ARC
TIC SHOWS.
Capt. Bernard on that date stopped
In a harbor of Taylor island. which
is east OF Victoria land. in the hope
Of finding a new tribe OF natives.
At the end of two hours he returned
to the harbor and found his ship
frozen fast in the Ice. There was
nothing to do but stay and that In
what he did from August, 1917, un-
til September, 1919, in a limited area
Of islands.
SAYS ISOLATION
NOT PLEASANT
1T was not good" said Capt Ber-
nard Of his long imprisonment In the
Arctic 1T Is not pleasant being cut
off from all contact with the out
side world. We knew nothing OF
what was going on. When we left
Nome In 1916. the last war news we
heard was OF the naval battle fought
by the British and the Germans in
the North sea. When we finally did
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