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Upper Dease and the portage route from Dismal Lake to Imaernirk I have made a 

 survey. 



I have obtained specimens of what I think is rich iron ore from Victoria Land 

 north of Cape Bexle3\ Copper is picked up almost anywhere by the natives in the 

 whole Coronation Gulf district, each family having its favorite place to search for 

 material for knives and arrows. The spot most in repute however is a short dis- 

 tance north of Dismal Lake. I have several of these copper specimens. 



After spending several months on the lower Horton River and a like period on 

 the Coppermine, I am of the opinion that Horton River is fully as large a stream. 

 Mr. Stefansson made a compass survey in December, 1910, of Horton River from 

 the point nearest Langton Bay to within seventy miles of Bear Lake, taking also a 

 collection of rock specimens.] 



The expedition's opportunities for ethnological study in this region are 

 thought to be better now than they are likely ever to be again ; the expedi- 

 tion is well placed in regard to outfit and food supplies, while sophistication 

 and changes in the material life of the Eskimo will progress rapidly, due to 

 the trade relations which have been opened with the Bear Lake Indians 

 during this summer of 1911. To the regret of Mr. Stefansson, the expedi- 

 tion itself has helped to hasten the end of the isolation of the Eskimo. 

 They came to trust him, a white man, also his Eskimo from the West, and 

 learned from these Eskimo that Indians are a harmless people nowadays 

 and besides have an abundance of iron and other articles valuable to possess. 

 Therefore it is the desire of the expedition, notwithstanding the home- 

 sickness, of the men, to remain in the field still another year because of their 

 great opportunities for work. 



White fox in trap; photograph talvon at a distance of si.f feet. A white fox skin is 

 worth about six dollars in the .Arctics and smenty-flve sliins, the eciuivalent of four hundred 

 and fifty dollars, is a large number to be taken in one year. The present shortage on the 

 market in Russian white fox will cause rapid destruction of the species in Arctic America 



