Across the Sub-Arctics of Canada: A Journey of 3200 Miles by Canoe and Snowshoe Through the Barren Lands. Including a List of Plants Collected on the Expedition, a Vocabulary of Eskimo Words, a Route Map and Full Classified Index. With Illustrations from…
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vi, 280 pp. 1973 facsimile of 1898 original. Arctic Bibliography 18137: "Narrative of a trip for exploration and survey of regions west of Hudson Bay, May - Dec. 1893, (on which the author served as topographer and Eskimo interpreter), from Lake Athabaska to Chesterfield Inlet, along Hudson Bay and coast to Hayes River; observations on Indian and Eskimos, also on game, conditions of travel and physical features of the regions. Appendix 1. Classified list of plants (233 species with locations). 2. Eskimo vocabulary of words and places. Geological and geographical results of the trip are included in J.B. Tyrrell's Report on the Doobaunt, Kazan and Ferguson Rivers and the northwest coast of Hudson Bay (etc.), 1897."