PAGE FORTY.SIX 5 aE #3 THE/DAILY BRITISH WHIG 17d. (eee J $4 , SATURDAY, DECE MBER 14, 1918. I ---- | Roya Northwest Motinted Police that 10 crime shall oceur withih its jurie- investigation - and lictior © without iwithent the criminals betng brought { the party 0 justice > Tn . * » » an the retarn journey that had to spehd 19 days was It in . crossing the broken ice an Uoronation | Ing, because snow Sgt Ww 8 a Ah, THE PHOTOGRAPHS The patrol's snmaoer camp on the Coppermine river Native guides. The figure at the right is that of a woman Crossing an open dce-field in Bathurst Inlet Inspector French in Summer custome French and natives, aftér a successful seal hunt, Part of the unexplored range of mountains, discovered by the > g nti) réench patrol, Guilt. In that time they travelled from to 200 miles, most of the time in 176 imminent danger of death by drown Rad drifted and covered many of the smaller cracks in the ice. Several times ofie or more of the men fell into the fey water, to be by comrades The smaller cracks the men jumped, pall ing the dogs and sleighs gfter them The larger ones they traversed in a rescued his canoe, making the dogs swim * * » . During the journey Taspector French made scientific notes, gome of which mey prove to be very valuable to the government. § All of the Eskimos encountered along the Arctic coast were the kind ® Stefansson claims to have first dis cayered. Stefansson callgl them the "Blonde Eskimos," but: French terms them "Copper Eskimos." They are no madie, travelling in bands of from six to 150. For the moat part they friendly, although French of a "hig war" that was fought in 1912 at White Rear Point in 'Queen Maude sea. The war result ed In 28 being killed, accordng to the Stories vepeated to the officer The Eskimos appear to have no re ligion, although they evidently believe are natives told A. girl of the Ivilik tribe of Bekimos, at Baker's Lake Standing, 8. The party upon its return to Baker Lake, the sailor marooned on the Aretic eoast whom French Sitting, at left, is Sergt.~ The nativey at the left is K¥%iman rescued and brought back to civilization Major Caulkin, and vigiht, Inspector werd gutdes who accompanied the patrol 9 French "in winter costume. No. 10 Radford and Street were murdered by Eskimos, at French two Inspector The Island Where Sxplorers J Ld R RENCH GIVES | FIRST DETAILED ACCOUNT OF 5,000-MLE MAN-HONT Copywright, 1918. + Never.again! One 5,000-mile walk is about enough for a lifetime? » It was Inspector, French speaking; Inspector French of the Royal North-West Mounted ' Police, now Lieut. French. of the Canadian Expeditionary Paree to Siberia. He had been asked if he imended ever to undertake another journey.siueh as the one he has just completed-~the 5,000-mile patrol above the Aretic'irele that solved the mystery of the murder of the explorers, Radford and Street, Row "1 will never make thy! Fp again," he went on, "unless, df course, I have orders+4o do so. have had enough of that kind of travel to satisfy me. If I over go into that country again, it will be by hoat." Inspector French's next series of adventures is destined to be in Siberia, where he is going as a lieutenant with a squadron of cavalry recruited under the standard of the Mounted Police. ie, inspector would have heen in Siberia a month sooner if it 'had not been for a severe atlack of Spanish influenza, which confined him to Regina hospital for eighteen days. _ As soon as he was released from the hospital he was pre- ed upon to give to {he public, for the first time, a eom- Pree of Tus patrol, ¢ magt men who de big things, r Frenéh is not much of a : Hels extremely reticent about Hing of the historic patrol, particu. bis part in it. But by dint of | mueh persuasion and the ¥ropounding of hay questions," the writer suc- light of day at Qu'Appelle, Sask, at tite time when the scarlet-coatel po- Heemen were the Alpha and Umega of law and order on the Canadian Piains. He actually "signed up" with the force as soon as he was old enough to pass the recruiting officers aad he has served Continuously and 'With distinction ever since. In the records of the famous foree, -| which flow appears to he passing mi Poblivion as rapidly as scheming pal. «J ticians can kill it oft without arous- Wig the people of the west, French's [Patrol will go down as the } out of 'supplies and were on the point or perishing in the barren was- tes of ice, snow and rock, 1,800 miles from the nearest outpost of civiliza- tion, when providentially saved by the appearance of herds of wild animals. Many times the party was reduced to slender rations of thin soup--- a weak diet for men running aH day he- hind swiftly loping dogs, struggling through blinding blizzards when the temperature stood between 60 and 70 degrees below zero. It was a common occurrence to eat their meat raw, When no moss 'with which to build a fire could be found. On three occas- fons the men killed some of the dogs to feed the others, and looked on with envious eves and empty stomachs, Twelve days they spent on floating cakes of ice, risking life and limb scores of times a day leaping from cake to cake or launching a frail canoe when: the cracks were too wide to jump. .. : These are some of the things In- spector French has in mind when he says, "Never again; ope 5,000 mile walk 'is enough." - * The object of the expedition was to solve the mystery of the murder in 1913 of Bradford and Street, explor- ers, sent into the far north by the Smithsonian Institute, of New York, and to demonstrate to' the primitive Eskimos who inhabit the Arctic coast that the arm of British law is long, that it extends wherever the elements permit human being to exist. And Inspector French achieved his objective. About two and! one-half years after he left The Pas to under- take the expedition, he appeared one day not long ago at the Ottawa office of the Mounted Police, salute and reported that he had done his duty. J . ie One feature of. the patrol, about which Inspegtor Freneh js most loathe to talk, was the 'rescue of a Swedish sailor, who had been mar- ooned "for many months on the Are- tic coast. The sailor, Albert Kihlman, |bad been navigating bificer on the Steamship Teddy = Bear, from Nome, Alaska, which entered the Arctic in A917 on a trading expedition and has {never been heard from since. Kibilmaa | took his Tevelige by putting the HEr®- siting officer o In a hereafter for men, because they shout confessions of their sins when imminent, The natives no after-life for fe- death seems believe there 13 males, Many of the customs of the natives are described by Inspector French as revolting. The rigors of the climate, a8 well as the savage state of the Es kimos, make the survival of the fit tést and death to the weaklings the law of the land, The natives are polygamons, some men having several wives and some women having more than one hus- band. There is no marriage ceremony. {nfants are pledged to marriage by their parents, and enter the marital state when they have reached the age of 17 or 18. It is not an uncommon occurrence, according to the Tnspec- tor, for husbands to trade wives. Skins, food, and any kind of & trinket are legal tender in such transactions. Undér the customs of the country all Jmale children belong ito 'the. tather and all females to the mother, It is a common practice for mothers to let their girl babies die"at bifgh or, when they are allowed to live, if they ever become. a hindrance to their mothers they dre thrown through a crack in the ice or left in an igloo to perish from starvation and ex- bosure. Inspector French, through in- French's patrol ranks as a rémark- able 'example of high endeavor and supreme valor. : Inspector French wrote in his diary "Have had not solid food for two days and everyone is getting weak; dogs It was during the summer of 1913 /are dropping in their. harness from that news reached Ottawa of the mur- | weakness; this looks like our last pa- der of Radford and Street, who had |trol," a herd of deer appeared on the ventured into the unmapped country Lhorizon and the situation again was around Bathurst Inlet. The crime, it |gaved. was rumored, had been committed, Thus. the patrol triumphed .over all under provoeation, but it was a|adversities. It carried ,white man's crime, nevertheless, committed . on|law farther than ever, before; it vin- terpreters, lectured every (eibé on this subject, telling the natives that they must take care of their ehildren or the Mounted Police would 'be after them for murder. The only ingéct the party encoun- tered was the mosquito, whieh thrives in the summer time. * * Foilowipg is a summary of the diary kept by Inspector French: The long chase began August 11th, 1916, when Inspector French set sail from Montreal on the ice-breaker May- copie with a complete outfit of sup- British soil under the Jurisdiction of | dicated once more the boast, of the e Mounted Police. Not satisfied with the 'meagre details that reached them through indirect channels, the police officials. decided to dispatch a patrol} to clear up the mystery and bring the criminals to justice. Tn the autumn of 1916 French started out with a par- J ty consisting of Sergt.-Major T. B. Caulkin, Corp. W. C. Douglas, 'Con- stable C. B. Crombie, and Constablé A. L. Chinn, all mémbers of the Moun- |: ted Police, and four natives. The ae-' tual patrol which made the difficult part of the journey, consisted only of French, Caulkin and the four natives. a (Continued on Page 47.) WE_ BUY AND: SELL WAR LOAN ISSUES Bongard Ryerson & Co. Members Toronto Stock Exchange. STOCKS, BONDS, GRAINS AND COTTON Private wires to New York, Chicago, Toronto, Mon« Law Phone 1728 The distance travelled by these six had quarrelled with the captain, who E men--in the dead of winter because dog-teams could not travel in the Summer -- was 5,193 miles, across bleak ice-fields and barren wastes on Which there was not a shrub, not even | a blade of grass, nothing except a ~ Caught With the Goods ia tof 1 cag Talk Wee de September, : Justice 19 the fce-boung Arctic