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scramble. Sometimes the poor fellow would r\o\. attempt some of our long jumps, 

 and would have to walk a long distance to find a narrower crack. Usually they 

 have along their kyacks to cross such places with, but this time he failed to 

 bring one. The kyack is a singular-looking skin boat. It is sometimes spelled 

 kayack. — Cor. Globe- Democrat. 



THE HUDSON'S BAY ROUTE. 



The Canadians are building their Canada Pacific R. R., running through the 

 dominion from east to west, and in addition to this they have incorporated the 

 Nelson Valley Railway and Transportation Company, whose purpose is to build 

 a road from Churchill harbor, at the western side of Hudson's Bay, southwardly to 

 Lake Winnepeg, on the hne of the Canada Pacific, from where still another road 

 is to be built to tap our Northern Pacific at a point near Bismarck. The object 

 of this scheme is apparent. The distance from Churchill harbor to Liverpool is 

 114 miles nearer than that from New York to Liverpool, while the distance from 

 Winnepeg to Churchill harbor is 1,300 miles shorter than that from Winnepeg to 

 Montreal by way of Chicago. The great grain fields of the northwest, along the 

 line of our Northern Pacific road, and above that in British America, are the ob- 

 jective point of this system of improvements. This vast region is being rapidly 

 settled and is destined to yield a large proportion of the wheat that must go from 

 America to Europe. The trade is worth striving for, and if the Canadians, with 

 the encouragement and help of British capital, can secure it, the advantage will 

 be a great gain to them and a great loss to our northern lines which are looking 

 forward to it as a heritage they are entitled to. Heretofore, Hudson's Bay has 

 been regarded as in the Arctic region, and too far north to be capable of figuring 

 in the trade movement. But the time was when the region along our Northern 

 Pacific was regarded in the same light, and yet this region is now becoming the 

 great grain district of our country. It is not impossible, therefore, that the har- 

 bor at the lower point of the Hudson's Bay, may in the near future become an 

 important shipping point from which the whole trade of the Winnepeg and Sas- 

 katchewan will take water for Europe. 



THE LOST JEANNETTE. 



Intelligence from the Rodgers, sent out by the Government to search for the 

 Jeannette in the Arctic regions, has been received. The despatch is dated St. 

 Lawrence Bay, Aug. i8th, and is in substance, that the whaler R. B. Handy re- 

 ports the Esquimaux at Point Barrow as saying that they saw four white men 

 going toward Mackenzie River this spring, and found where they had made snow 

 huts to live in during the winter. They saw dead men in the huts, and also saw 

 tracks of a sledge, with dogs and footprints of men, supposed to be survivors of 

 the Jeannette. The Rodgers and Strelock will investigate the rumors, and ex- 

 pect to send more authentic news before the close of the summer. 



