Ja1y 9, 1939 P.,. Seve. HOT WEATHER HUSBANDS NORTHWEST PASSAGEI (Continued from page one.) By W. E. BiU Then some time during the lat- ter part of next month the Na- scopie will push her way through the fioating ice pans of Bellot strait and drop anchor at Fort Ross, the Hudson's Bay company The I-told-you-so husband becomes almost post at the southern end of unbearable on a hot day. Heat seems to North Somerset Island. bring out the worst in him. Honey can't find the car keys. Naturally, she blames him There the Nascopie will meet for losing them. What does he do but go the company's supply ship, the through her things and find them under her trade schooner Aklavik, which compact. Then he comes and says, "See, I already, with luck, will have met told you ," which is too much. the motor schooner Fort Ross, also a Hudson's Bay company vessel, near King William Island. The cargo of the Nascopie will be transferred to the Aklavik, and the two vessels will part company, the Nascopie salling back toward warmer climes and the Aklavik returning on the route she came, to distribute goods and supplies in the north- An officerfromthe Na.cople .uperriae. an Eakimowomen'. wheelbarrow lands and, with the aid of the race on Baffin!aland. (International photo.) schooner Fort Ross, to the com- pany trading posts and stations quires from the seal and the explains. II Moreover, either end _ ..tJ. __ of the Royal Canadian mounted walrus. The next prime neces- of the passage could be blocked police in the western arctic. The sities are guns, rifies, and ammu- quickly and effectively by a hos- schooner Fort Ross, in order to nition. The most popular wear tile power." Here ate two terrible examples of meet the Aklavik, will have is white duffie, which the Hud- Consulting his hydrographic what a wife whowants her husband to son's Bay company has been c h art s, Mr. Espenshade has make a nice impression on strangers sailed east from as far west as found the minimum depth has to face in hot weather. Top, the the Mackenzie river. ' trading to the Eskimo for two throughout the passage to be in frigid husband who can't JO near the By the means of these three hundred years. This is a heavy water on even the hottest day without vessels, the Nascopie, the Akla- blanket material, manufactured excess of 100 feet. The offices turning blue and teeth chattering, vik, and the Fort Ross, the hts- of wool from four different coun- of the Hudson's Bay company, '" about to be introduced to his wife'sold toric Northwest passage will be tries to insure its long wearing however, are authority for the collegechurnon a bathing beach. Bot- traversed again this summer. qualities. statement that there is much tom, the husband who comes home The Nascopie was scheduled to Another large cargo item is shallow water in the western (AallOClat.d SC•.••n "'_a, Ltd., photo.) ----------------::;ji!~~~~------,with the too short hot weather haircut sail yesterday. twine and rope in varying sizes. part of the passage. THENABCOPJE. r on the very day he is to meet some in- When the Nascopie and the It is used for fishing nets. When laws with money. • e • Aklavik rendezvous at Fort Ross the fox catch is good there is a silence that enveloped them for· The delicate husband, they will be at the half -way demand among the Eskimos for As a possible water route to subject to every known eyer and held secret the tragic house of the Northwest passage, fancy shawls, cheap jewelry, the orient, as Mr. Espenshade story of their crews for thirteen Summer heat complaint says, the Northwest passage at either singly or all to- on the very edge of the perpetu- mouth organs, a c cor d ion s, years, It was not until 1859 gether. Rose cold. poison ally frozen roof of the world. watches, clocks, phonographs, one time was of importance. that the details of the tragedy ivy, mosquito bites, sand The Nascopie might, if her cap- records, candy, and the like. But That importance existed from were revealed. flea ditto, sunburn and tain wished, continue on from when foxes are scarce the Eski· the time of the discovery of the From a paper found in a cairn fits of despondency, Fort Ross and complete the trip mo tightens his belt and falls western world down almost to at Point Victory, on the north- caused by the wife's through the passage. But then back on the reliable seal and modern days. It was John Cabot, west coast of King William habit of sayin" "All she would be on the wrong side walrus, which supported his fore- a Venetian sailing for King Island, by members of a search- righty! " of the continent and would have fathers long before white men Henry VII. of England, who first ing crew under Capt. F. L. Me· to wait another year to get back, arrived in the north. searched for a way to China Clintock, the story of the Frank- for the arctic season is short Out of the arctic the Nascopie around the north of North Amer- lin expedition up to April 25, and the Northwest passage is brings mainly fox pelts-white, ica. Jacques Cartier, the French 1848, was revealed. open to navigation only a few black, silver, cross, red, and an explorer, when he discovered the From this document it was weeks of the year. occasional rare blue. It brings St. Lawrence, thought that he learned that Franklin had made Aboard the Nascopie for this also porpoise hides for leather, had found the way. Others by the most remarkable voyage cruise are fur traders, Royal porpoise and seal oil for making the score continued in vain the ever recorded up to then in the Canadian mounted police off to paints, sealskins for the Euro· search for the Northwest pas- annals of arctic exploration. inspect posts or to relieve men pean market,' and an occasional sage, among them Robert After having been sighted by coming out on furlough, mis- polar bear for a zoo. Thorne, Martin Frobisher, John the whaler in Bamn's bay on sionaries, doctors, and teachers, Prof. A. F. Sherzer of the Davis, Henry HUdson, William JUly 26, 1845, the Erebus and a Canadian government party University of Michigan, who is Baffin, Jens Munk, Sir John Bar- Terror had sailed through Lan- with a paternal interest in the a passenger aboard the Nascopie row, W. E. Parry, and George caster sound and Barrow strait welfare of the northern subjects, and who has spent three sum- Back. and up Wellington channel as and tourists. These travelers mers in vessels on Hudson bay, The British government in far as 77 degrees north. They will have a voyage de luxe so is of the opinion that the use of 1743 offered a reward of $100,000 then had returned to the mouth of the channel via the west coast of Cornwallis Island and had wintered off Beechey Island In 1845-'46. As soon as his ships were re- leased from the ice in the spring of 1846 Frankl1n had tried to make his way south to the Amer- ican coast, but had been caught in an ice pack and never again freed. The win- ter of 1846-'47 was passed at Brutal hot weather husband, who a point about goes truthful on the wife. Says fifteen mil e 8 terrible things a~ut her little sun ~ far as accommodations are con- From an old prillt of FrcmldlD·. northwest of suit, ~ cerned. A minimum tempera- .hipa. the Erebua. left, cmd the Cape Felix, the ture of 30 degrees is the usual Terror. At riqht la a map of most northerly offering of the arctic route in Frcmldln·.expedition, with key point of King point. explafned below: 1- Wllliam Island. midsummer, yet the tourists will T.rror cmd Er.bu. la.t .een see plenty of ice. In one or two Sir John FrcmJdin In the spring of July 28, 1845. 2-Northemmo.t 1847, when all Heat-lazy husband. Sup- of the ports of call on the route point reached. 3-Spent win- posed to be cutting grass. on board the vessels were report- the anchorage is free of ice for ter of 1845·'48. 4-Shipa ice· the wife is running the ed well, two omcers and six men only two weeks of the year. On locked for winter of 1848-'47. mower around him and is Franklin died here June II, •..... ~E.:; started on an expedition, the this unusual cruise the tourists looking pathetic so he direction and purpose unstated will look upon wonders that few 1841. S-SurriyOl'll abcmdoned yeuel. and marched aouth on ice. I- will feel ashamed of him- in the paper. except explorers and seafaring Record oi expedition found in caim at PolDtVictory,IIn9 William !alcmd. self when he sees HER A fortnight later Franklin men have beheld. They will see working. the passage through Bellot strait for the discovery of the North- died. The summer brought no along the shores of the route will never be of great commer- west passage, an offer that was prospects of escape, and dUring vast mountains of ice that never cial importance. He makes it renewed in 1818. the following Winter the two melt, polar bears, seals, wal- clear, however, that that is mere- It was not until the middle of ships drifted slowly southward ruses, whales, and other wild life ly his private opinion, based the nineteenth century, however, with the ice for a distance of of the arctic regions, and, above upon what he knows of present that the passage finally was dis· about thirty miles.