His Long Journey Over a Frozen Waste.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 368, 15 May 1889, Page 3

His Long Journey Over a Frozen Waste.

\ Tim Philadelphia " Inquirer " . c ays> : - Loid Lonsrfale, lecently imported dead in the Arctic Regions, is on his way home (o England attain. A lot-ter leceiod Jit Bethlehem from Mr Wolf, a Moravian missionary stationed ntKnfhagak, nearFoi b A'exander, on Bristol bay, Alaska, in latitude 59deg. north IpB dec. .west longitude, says that Lonsdale ariivcd at Nu^hauak mission on December 15Wi la->t year, after a long and tedious journey of 4 OUO miles overland from Rank«land in latitude 75 degiees north. This wa? the farthest point north that, he reached. He remained at the misoion until. January 14th. The country he had" tfavei'sed , from Banksland was jough ami r.open and . the- snow was terribly drifted. Most of -the journey was made on foot,, the Jog^.barely^managiiig fc > drag the ,camp buthb and provisions. On the Ist of. December the thermometer registered 105 degrees below freezing point. Teirible l>liz/:aids swept across the country continually, aivl the most strenuous exeitions were necessaiy to keep the party from being scattered and frozen to death. . „..' w_* , ( Loid LonsJale estimates tli^bj.lie' has travelled by dog pled and on foot about 10,000 miles from Winnipeg i» a little more than a year. In the Hudson Bviy le^ioi, wheie the snow and ice aie -'nu.oth, the doys fiequontly ' c.irried, them over 200 miles a-day. He left the mifSioii at Nuphagak January 14th, and with a dog train started acio^s the pemnsu'a to Katmai, on the North Pacific. From bheie he crossed to Kail aU, on. Kadiak island, where there is a whaling station. The Eatl sent word he would, ?ail foi England at once, bub no ne\»p has been received of his armal nt anj . American poi t, and it is possible that he ha? turned whaler ro get. some new experiences.