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" } A tare, Lopela Ons giish pane wi thn when we fist saw th is Fs 3 . po . - i Patsy, and we found that they liked tands; anid fotind the birds we tea i ) ' | : WwW Ww J : i : 0 (& a eese - { us to use then ft wlute-mans nae. come all this wav to look for. There t 3 : : 4 : yy | Kabloona os then word for white were pb pests, qn we were the fiat ar In : he Canadian Arctic R mart, and what was the good ot hav- white people ever to see ths par on : i : I - me a Kabloovna mame au the Kab- ular colony, or mdeed this Lile \\ ae : . i & K loona did not uge [LI called it Lake Vilone after un "i Tr pds [for the next five weeks we took panton's wite I have a suaightiorward travel Viewing the Country from Different Patsy and his sixteen-vear-old son, OF course, we Ifd to me om ] story to tell you: the story of an, Aspects Faanoo, with us on our various ex own names for any geographical expedition which three of us made Two otus were printarily ormtho plovations.: | wonder 1 can de features which we wanted to. reter © during the summer lo the north of logists, but the third member ot the k scribe that lad to you. He was a tor because the map of that pari wi - Canada. A good nny people go party was a research engineer whe typical young Eskimo, fairly short the world. was very hike the Beil. into the Canadian Arctic every sum. also knew a good deal about geo- and thick-set, with straight, black man's chart-ir-The Hunting of 'the -- ! mer, and, indeed. there are a good logy and surveying. So he-was look- hair cut in a fringe, and a brown Snark. Do vou reavember'-- a per pi : BN many, too, -whose business keeps. ing at the country with rather a face flushed with rosy cheeks, which feet and absolute blank.' It was just J $ 3 them there all the year round, and, different eve, and making maps of givgs all young Eskimos a most plain white, except for a dotted ling ; perhaps, for many Feats, sone. ol it, and so on. 7.0 ) wonderful, rich colouring. He wore representing what was thought to 3 that north country is quite casy to For "the first" weeks, fhe spring a parka, which is a sort of tunic be the course of the Perry: Rivee ? - gC to in these days of flying, but did not scem to advance at all. lt with a hood trinuned with brown itselt--and we found that even that . 4 some is still rather inaccessible. The was windy and cold and raw in the and yellow wolverine fur. was wrong ! dorrv Rive here we we i . . i : a 7 . . . ) 3 Perry River, where we went, is one daytime, with frequent snowstors, Lhe caribou ig the most important We went to Lal alk ; as CaS > Aces : : 2 : op a lake Vive soi a of these inaccessible places, al- cand at might we sometimes had atiimal to these particular Eskimos. |. ond tim Ist. afte a i - a? 3 $ i Iv oa 1 i. 7p v py ; { C. S 3 ¢ . ~ 4% : though it is not particularly far about fifteen degrees of frost. That . It is rather like a reindeer, and they | adi a N--. Le i 7 north--only about seventy-five miles | "wag in June; and we -began-to-think--{-- "Tint it for its flesh and for its hide hy i bg Swen ;) es Fo ' : i e------e-------- ~af thie Aree Carcle sat ter be . : Xt S ¢ balls ot silve . EIS E----_; £3 C8 - - north of thie Arctic Circle, said Peter that the break-up would never come: and they use the bones and thé hora Sg Je fe Dalle of silvery ro } Scott, well known naturalist and art- It was daylight all the time, but' tor all kinds of houschold utensils, i hn hii otid R Sanne a > EL a s day 1 oe y i" b vn N » vaniaton an the colour of thus down, - ist, in a recent BBC broadcast. we kept a routine all the same, and and. the sinews for sewing, and so. |g : alone sd - . N 7 i hie alls thal «i littl re Some _goshngs were almost canary - ; We went there by 'plane--mostly went to bed soon after midnight. on, which means that very httle o vellow, arid others were platinum i i uneventfully--but we had one rather | That was because we were keeping - the carflion is wasted. blonde, and, since this was unknowa > a unpledsant stretch, flying down a a meteorological record, and we had _- It was Topelakon and his collea to' science, we were rather pleased I is 2 gorge with low, dark clouds down to read the instruments at noon and Fiesta 'Queen = Pert Colleen "gue, Taipan, who léd us to the big with the discovers } to the tops of the cliffs on 'both at midnight. --_ Eo tre SC ating breeding colony of Ross's Geese, or i * oC . ? 4 En 'e.seemed to be-flvi Our « 'as adite comiortable Delaney, above, was "Senorita : : peek ali About the middle of July a rourti Pa : sides, so that we.seemed to be flying Our camp was quite comiortable, ol "the Piesta? ie the Orifice Kangowan, as the Eskimos call ION : J dn a tunnel, and in the middle of it really. We had three tents; and B ; 1 Fo tival Ang: theui. lt--was the only colony we Tak. Joined our party. He was the = WE ran into a thick snow storm. made up-a fourth one out of packing ow estuval.. - found where the birds were breeding 'prio of a float-plans, and he flew gy But, anyway, eventually we got cases covered with' ground sheets, - = this summer. 1t was a two day's | "0 Just as soon as the lakas were 1 through to the Perry River, and which we used as a sort of labora- The two tatniiies, cach AIRE journey infand, up out of the alluvial open enough for him to land. So foe . . J a Sy ) " - fi iy ; rer WET i .» landed oit the snow-covered tundra tory for our scientific work. One white, canvas tent, bacame our great valley of the Perry, among small, fhe ast two weeks of our expedi- re . nee - vy »- Cd as , Dd bs fA ¥: . y " ; ERP about fourteen tiiles inland from the, | _tent was a fairly big bell tent, and friends and loyal helpers The most rocky hills with innumerable lakes. tion we 24 explore ih plans, and - SA 4 ; ; . > : hie : " Lt RA Eh T. : Es TRI we covered an area about the siz : Arctic Ocean. de used that by day aud ate iy A | intelligent of them was a little man At last, in pouring rain, we came to of Wales fairly thorough ry +4 -- ---- --*And-where: you-may--wehask; = --We--had--taken- most-ot an oon | "called Topelakon. Besides their Iis- Lake. Avlone--a-little larger tha its Foul Some Tew Takes ik a a : 'is the Perry River? .. The quick with us, and we had three little kimo names, most of these natives. mediate neighbours and with five Ions AE84. witio ore -- answer to that is 'about the middle cooking stoves which kept the day iad English" pues: a3 wellethes islands on it, each of the islands 9) 5 j a new river, nye thaw d - i ut falely waru : ried : i ' ae ; ed it " ith thy ifty. miles long. a i Jue [¢) of the north coast of Canada, a little tent fairly warm and dried out our Loi een baptised down at the trad- dotted, almost covered, with tive donated: Hos 3 and a hit uch . nearer to Hudson's Bay than to the wet clothes. : } ~|__ing post at the mouth of the river by | white birds sitting on their nests. actually, it was onl Jeary SR . ) delta of the Mackenzie River." i would "Hirwruescribe-tie = a passing missionary many years be. { wonder it you «an imagine the Cy MR only about bt) When all our equibment had been troardinary snaigness and comfort 5 : gh ' < N § | : i tl 1 " " yy ST 7 ~- i i : | i { er! | I ~ ' | | (l Ti a ; | T ro x SEE Col Tren Pe my Sms Gn gad oi " EN \ ¥ | rte ww wee ww we ew awe ee wet . Ie - 4 hl 1950 vi ' 9:10 11 12 13 14 18 ; 16-17 18 19 20 21 22 #5 25 26 27 28 29 2 3 4 5 8 7 in = | 1950 AUGUST - - ea 1 | f 6 7 8 9 10 11 12} 4 lis 1418 18 17 18 10] _|20 21 22 23 24 25 26 a7 22 20 30 Ji i unpacked, our pilot and his com= panion chmbed back into the 'plane --and took off again. We watched the 'plane until it was a speck in the sky: [t was our last link with the outside world. Tor the next two months we would be living here alone. It is hard to describe the feeling ~_the excitement, the anticipation, the slight-anxicties as to what was in store--illness, accident, a wmiscal- "culation --in_our- supplies All the hazards -- and there are a good ~ many, L suppose--oi our expedition passed through our 'minds as the, lium of the 'plane's engines faded into. the extraordinary silence ot the" tundra. he _ The tundra an be very silent, but it is not often, because almost al- on this day it was still, and from _afar, from tie river, we suddenly heard the cry of wild geese. [t was an important 'moment _ior us, because we had come there es- +. pecially to find these geese -- the Ross's Geese--white birds with ~ black tips to their wings, and a rather soit, muted call. We saw four ways. there is a. wind-blowing--But-- _ lovely, miniature Snow-Geese;-called------- of them flying up the river, which * was still at that time mostly frozen with only a trickle of water running = down on top-of the ice. But it was tremendously "exciting to see then). We made our camp on a ridge in the lee of a hill. It was quite a low hill. only- about 100, féet above the surrounding plain. Wot the snow had blown away from tlie ridge, and so we pitched our tents on grey gravel, and secured" the guy ropes with loose boulders. That camp was ow headquarters from then--that was June o--for the next two months, Now [I want to tell vou how we spent those two months--what we object was to stidy , the birds, and particularly (Ross's Gieesd, because, as fart as anvone knows, this is the' only part of the world where the Ross's Geese breed, and no scientist had ever been there before. - ----were--there--for-- Our fitst-and--matn--] of my sleeping bag. It was a bag . inside a bay. all made of quilted eiderdown. And after a long day, there wus no better imaginable lux- . ury than to climb into this bag aud pull up the zipper. One felt that it ~was a sort of haven, a home in a ~cheerless world, and if the wind blew forty miles an hour--and it did more than once, and ifs the tent collapsed about one's ears, which several times it threatened to do, one felt that ou hatin could possibly betall one in the cosy inner fastiess of the sleeping bag. ~~ pa ~ On the other hand, of course, it made it correspondingly more diffi- cult to start the day. If one awoke to a rattling of canvas, and peered out through the fly to see swirling snow or fog, or both, and with visi- -bility.no-ntore-than-100-yards-there---~p- was not much incentive to turn out. We were just considering this problem. one morning when we heard: footsteps on the gravel out- side. We called to each other from tent to tent to -njake sure _that we were all still in bed. And then-we realised-that we had visitors. These --were the fifst-of the Kogmuit tribe of Eskimos to come and call on us. We "took thém into our day tent and brewed tea for them, becanse Iiskimos are great tea drinkers. | Overcoming the Language ! "Difficulty There were two of them; a man and a boy--Haunga and Kaota, They could talk no word 'of Khglish , "and we, at that time, of course, could talk practically no Eskimo. But with ot K- - | 4 (| ¥ 3 : 5 Yetta Fe va ai? % 3s ie} » rn ti 7 Fa y 's : y TAAL Ny : ALE 3a SATE REE. doe - a Fe ¥e a A ; 7, a. - . s I f N . 3 . « s -- a LD) - : s NE i : * And titen came the sad day wiiem we had _to leave. Wa had Grow tremendously found of our patsh of tundra--the patel of boggy moos and stony ridges--which, by thig time of the year, was 'quite olear of snow and richly coverad with flow-" ers--heathers and heaths, saxifrages, and dwarf rhododondrons, and the beautiful' stars of Dryas, which is, perhaps, the commonest, and .cer- tamly, [| think, one of the most cheerful of the Arctic flowers. We had grown fond-of "it early days of August, when wae had even though about bathing in the "fake below our camp. But above all, wa had grown fond PERL ot friends the Hskimos i our "1 shall never forget wy Tast nighs, coming down the Parry river by "ealioe Ti the midnight dusk. Wa had bean catching some Ross's (aes to bring back. alive, and the whole operation had been rather sucess ful--"Fhy sky was clear, and ila night was very still and hoantinl the whole scene was black and orange I remember | fook the canoe down over the rapids, which was exhilarating and, for a moment, tr her breath taking little foolliard, Next day mn the 'plane~Tmcludinig a dozen live gedse, we took oft the mouth of our river, The'fack-ice had driit- ed mito the bay, but we found opening which just long "enotigh. and we got safely off. And except for getting very shghtly lost the first, unmapped stretch of our homeward course, we returned and perhaps a withv a tardy toll doad from on Webs on in the warm, 1416 18 17 18 21 22 23 24 28 28 20 30 31 JUNE © 1 4 5 6.7 8. 11 1213 14 15 18 19 20 21 22 25 26 27 28 pa a A 8 "i, 10 11 29 -e-- or a a i Bn Ble - ,® : Sg i | ; » ¥ : ; $5 : : : EEE 2 ANN 208 ig fs ns oo Mac tay TY | 1) > ? 7) ? ih ? . 1% rp thick, floating down on it, another party of Eskimos made their camp about_a mile away from ours" play the part of the "world's largest Santa Claus" for a inotor car company. : things go wrong, and then it sud- denly turns fierce and dangerons . And «0 you shave to watch it, - . signs and with drawings we man- | by wav of Hudsdn's Bay without LT aged. . ° ! mishap So our adventure was end- r i [t was still snowing hard an hour |} ei - : RE MN . later "when. they -se ofl" over the - * . 11 Dia hill on their way back to theif camp. ; None ot ge CLV GEAAtic] YORE tay ? u 7 And we did not see any more of ; a say... Well #10; but for us it was Rohs these Kogmuit Eskimos for-about "Jake" And Jills--Arriving on the SS Atlantic, Jacob ("Fong quite an adventure, all tlie same: \We he. 4 L--ten--days--And-then--when-the-river Jake) Nacken,=seven=foot; eight-inch gant from Germany; tad --plammed----arefutty, awd, on 13 had begin to thaw out and the level gol a chance to display his- muscle. Comfortably perched on top of that, we were very lucky that AS of it had gone up about fiitaen feet, his arms are 'showgirls Siri, left, and Rosemary Kittleton, who nothing: went seriously wrong. 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