3-074-954 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lord Lonsdale's travels in the Arctic regions of North America: view on the Mackenzie River, 1890. 'The enterprising and courageous performance of the Earl of Lonsdale in travelling northward, from the Saskatchewan River of the Great Western Territory of Canada to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and thence crossing Alaska westward to the North Pacific...has excited much attention...Few people, except some officers of the Hudson Bay Company and of the Alaska Fur Company, have made acquaintance with those desolate regions...It was on Feb. 22, 1888, that his Lordship left England for Canada, determined to travel as far as he could overland in the Far West of the American continent, as well as to shoot a musk ox and a white bear in the most distant haunts of those animals..."On Friday, July 20, we started in the steamer down the Mackenzie, passing many lovely views of the Nahaney Mountains; we also passed the mouth of the Nahaney River, where there are indications of silver and some quartz...we came to the sea where, in a deep bay, we found some Mackenzie River Esquimaux, whale-hunting in conjunction with the Anderson River 'Huskies.' I stayed with them several days, and then proceeded over the float and drift ice to the opposite coast".' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.