sledge ji.unu-ys t" tlu- wiiitrr of 1898-99 aggregated about 3330 miles, an<l \\vre ac- 

 complished in 180 days, including 155 days of actual travel. Among tin- n suits of 

 these journeys was a valuable series of photographs and anthropometric measure- 

 ments of representatives of two tribes of Indians, the Tahltan and Loucheux, and 

 of two tribes of Eskimo, the Nunatagmiut and KoukpagOtiut, tin- measurements 

 comprising a total of 86 individuals '; much information about the general char- 

 acter of the country and the ranges of the large game animals; and the correction 

 i >f i^n >ss ern >rs in the current maps of the region bordering the Arctic coast between 

 the mouth of the Mackenxie and Cape Lyon. The area indicated on the U. S. 



Fig. 6. SKETCH MAP SHOWING POSITION OF ' ESQUIMAUX LAKE ' AS INDICATED ON THE U. S. 



HYDROGRAPHIC CHART No. 1189. 



Hydrographic Chart No. 1189 as "Esquimaux Lake" (see Fig. 6), he found to be 

 simply low country interspersed with small lakes; he crossed this area twice and 

 found it to be land and not water. Other charted lakes and rivers were also 

 found to have no real existence, and others that had been overlooked were for 

 the first time charted and named by Mr. Stone. (See the sketch maps in Mr. 

 Stone's paper already cited, here reproduced as Figs. 4, 5, and 6.) 



The natural history of the region traversed by Mr. Stone being only superficially 

 known, it was natural that his explorations should add greatly to our knowledge 

 of the ranges of the larger mammals in these high northern districts, not only 

 through his own observations but by information derived from various officers 

 of the Hudson Bay Company, and from intelligent white and Indian hunters. 



' See "A. J. Stone's Measurements of Natives of the Northwest Territories." By Franz Boas. Bull. 

 Amor. Mus. Nat. Hist . Vol. XIV, 1901, pp. 53-68, pll. vii-ix. 



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