THE FAR NORTH.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXIV, Issue 16, 11 September 1912, Page 5

THE FAR NORTH.

PROFESSOR STEFANSON’S discovery. A NEW PEOPLE. v ßy Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association ) Vancouver, September 9. Professor Stefanson, of the American Museum of Natural History, bus returned from the Arctic regions. He announced the discovery of a thousand white people living on Victoria Island, near the McKenzie River mouth. They are believed to be descendants of Erickson, a Norse chief, who readied Greenland in the year 1000, A.I). Stefanson found ten new tribes, some of which had seen Franklin. The tribes were mostly of Norwegian origin. FATE OF ENGLISH EXPLORER. NO HOPE. London, September 10. Stefanson reports that Hubert Darrell, au Englishman, who disappeared in the Arctic in 1909, is in all pro liability dead. Darrell travelled alone exploring the coast in order to buy furs from the tribesmen and then disappeared. There is no hope of any escape. Stefanson states that the Nor uoguai Esquimaux know nothing of their ancestry, but their blue eyes ana blonde hair stamp them as Scandinavians. A new type of barren ground grizzly bear was found, and other valuable scientific results were obtain-