The Nome nugget., 1926-07-24
STORMS, HEAT WAVE CAUSES DEATH


Nhlp surgeon bl= the lluNtf, report ed that the Eskimos of Point Bar row had q tradition that members pf their tribe once had been carried northward in Il southeast gale to q ally country inhabited by people. people like themselves. and that af-
 CT staying |; lona Wltil,.#therr they returned one Spring
 However. ilte late k \ Harris. oi he l'niied Stafes Cs s1t and E,'"- ,iciic Survey. offered =55,ial inc ex pior"re believe te he=fas mote sub ,lantal information Mr Harris claimed that NntaallA ali the tidal movement all lhe depends upon Y'"s sur" from the Hides of the North Atlaniic Ocean entering the 'ircumpolar s.a, tetween Greenland ird Spitzbergen
 If th"re were no obstruction the
 idcs at heunen hand. north at the iih"ia Coast wonld be=thr same as II Point iiarrow l,, said. But the
 idcs on' Heuuett Island rise and fall | 2i. feet. while off Point Barrow
 here i, q tiac=ef only o feet. MT Harris held this to he proof positive hat there is some great obstruction around which the tides must How | he hours of the tides show hat
 hey follow the circle of the Siber m coast aronnd to Alaska. being eYrn hours earlier al Bennett Is and than Point Enrtm
 Further evidenees sf land ta the north was furnished. MT Harris noinrcd out by indications that thc Beaufort Sea virtually is= ,lea"d in 'p hr north and eastward Ice does aot drift freely te Inc northward lt seems tn he eauehi in T poe ket and is of remarkable thickness and ! te", Northeast winds will drive the 'cr to tl,r westward hui there is Iiiltlo ar no movement uf tlle ice when the wind blows from the west "fhrsr circumstances so far as they go" s,tid Mr. Harris, tend to 7how that the Beaufort sea is near !y landlocked in all directions eX '"pting toward the west,
 Mir. Harris cited the Aocnuutsand Papers of the Navy, page ld2, vol nmc l2, 1SIt. which describes how the tides are effected by the wind lat Blsou's Bay. cast of Point Bar row When the wind was from the ..,-t or northeast tlter' was srarely Irisc in tide, but with the wind blow i mg q gale from the southwest the idle sometimes rose three and half feet. The inference MT. Harris. drew was that the unknown coast | line was not greatly distant from the north coast o( Alaska, making T pocket in which he tides pile up. | Driftwoud carried bv ice current. tllso gave evidence little drfGwood leine found as far east of the mouth of the Mackenzie River as Corona tion Gulf. Virtually uere had been found along Banks Island.
 That the Beaufort seq is an ice
 rap is indicated by tAe ohservai ions If several explorers. Osborn des-
 rihed il as follows;
 "Ice of 4ilpeudou5 thickness and i in extensive Hoes. some seven or i"isht miles in extent. was seen. Tho surface of il was not fiat, such as w, sec in Ratliu Strait and the adjacent seas. hut rugged with accumulated snow. frost and thaws of centuries. '
 Important evidence also was fur nished by the drifting of the illfat ed Jeanette. sunk in 1880 after II had hecn deserted hy Captain De long, who with his crew iro2e to death.
 The Jeanette became lodged in the ice at point mort henst of Wrancel Island and drifted wcster- fly, going 10 pieces northwest ol Bennett Island.
 At the same time he believed the undiminished tide at Bennett island indicates ? fairly narrow channel along which Nanscn travel cd,
 The division of ocean currents in he eastern section of the Beaufor, sea. one current flowing northeast ward and the other westward also indicated large obstruction to the north in Mir. Harris opinion.
 Mir. Pope. and others supporting his expedition feel that in these treason they have sufficient evidence Iof q polar continent to justify their IexploratiOn..