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iQ the early summer of 1908 the expedition desceodcd the Mackenzie River by boat t 

 Ocean. The winter was spent on the north coast of Alaska, with sled Journeys as far west t 

 Wright Inlet. In the spring and sutomer of 1909 the expedition moved eastward along the c( 

 and sled, and spent the winter foUowlng near Cape Parry 

 1910 



In late April. 1910, Mr Stef&nsso 

 known to bo visitod by the Western E; 

 Boxley encountering no Eskimo until the end of the Jt 

 In May, 1910, Mr, Steffinsson crossed o' 



the Arctic 

 the Waln- 

 iSt by boat 



left Langton Bay and Cape I. 



n. the latter tbo most easterly point 



Dolphin and Union Strait to Cape 



when he found a tribe that had never seen a 



Ictoria Land and then proceeded southward 



from Llston Island, entering the mouth of the Coppermine River in early June. He spent the s 



the Coppermine and Doase rivers and Dismal Lake. la early November he went to Langton Bay I 



communicate with Dr. AodersoD, crossing one of the largest imexplored re^ons In Canada 



of Vilhjatmur aie/&mai 

 1911 



In AprU. 1011 

 May and June Mr 

 and Union Strait. 

 about 400 pounds 

 thence along the cc 

 1912 



The winter of 

 I.,aDgton Bay. Mi 

 to Point Barrow, A 

 of ancient vlUagesi 

 Alaska 



I. Mr. StefdDsson and Dr. Anderson returned to the Coppermine region and In April. 

 Stefinsson and the Esldmo Natkuslak crossed Coronation Gulf, passed through Dolphin 

 crossed the Wollaston peninsula of Victoria Land, Prince Albert .Somid. took thore 

 of sdentiflc collections and hauled these across tlic still frozen sea to the mainland and 

 )a9t to Langton Bay. where the summer was spent In archteological work 



1911-12, devoted cldefly to linguistic researches, was spent on Horton River inland fi-om 

 r Stefiosson started from Langton Bay. March 22. 1912. for the thousand-mile sled trip 

 Jaska He reached that place June 13. spent the following two months in the excavatlou 

 Itf^, and left th«re August 13 on board the U. S. revenue cutter "■Bear" bound for Nome, 



