THE FROZEN NORTH.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 98, 11 September 1912, Page 5

THE FROZEN NORTH.

INTERESTING ARCTIC DISCOVERY. By Cable —Press Association—Copyright. Received 10, 5.5 p.m. Vancouver, September 9. Professor Stefanson, of the American Museum of Natural History, has 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 Ericksen, a Norse chief, who reached Greenland in the year 1000 A.D. Stefanson found ten new tribes, some of which had seen Franklin. The tribes were mostly of Norwegian origin. ENGLISH EXPLORER DISAPPEARS. Received 11, 12.20 a.m. London, September 10. Stefanson reports that Hubert Darrell, an Englishman, who disappeared in the Arctic in 1909, is in all probability 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 6tates that the Norwegian Esquimaux know nothing of their ancestry, but their blue eyes and blonde hair stamp them as Scandinavians. A new type of 'barren ground grizzly bear was found and other valuable scientific results were obtained.