3-074-990 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Lord Lonsdale's Travels in North America: Esquimaux at Peel's River, Alaska, 1890. Scene from '...the Earl of Lonsdale's travels, during the twelvemonth ending in April 1889, from the North Saskatchewan River to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and thence across Alaska to the North Pacific...On, due northward, by a fine navigable river, from Athabasca to the Great Slave Lake, thence down the great Mackenzie River, which receives the waters of the Great Bear Lake, then passing within the Arctic Circle, and traversing the land of the Esquimaux, the steam-boats of the Hudson Bay Company, every summer, reach the dreary coast of the Polar Sea. This was Lord Lonsdale's route'. From "Illustrated London News", 1890.