. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, September 13, 1913. ARCTIC EXPLORERS KILLED BY ESQUIMAUX. Killed by Esquimaux is the fate Teported to have befallen Harry V. Radford and George Street, two explorers, who left Winnipeg, Man., two years ago to essay the perilous journey from Chesterfield inlet, Hudson bay, to Bathurst, on the Arctic ocean, is the sad news conveyed by a press dispatch from Winnipeg this week. Their aim was to investigate the possible value of the territory already partially explored by other expeditions. It is believed that the territory conta
. Breeder and sportsman. Horses. THE BREEDER AND SPORTSMAN [Saturday, September 13, 1913. ARCTIC EXPLORERS KILLED BY ESQUIMAUX. Killed by Esquimaux is the fate Teported to have befallen Harry V. Radford and George Street, two explorers, who left Winnipeg, Man., two years ago to essay the perilous journey from Chesterfield inlet, Hudson bay, to Bathurst, on the Arctic ocean, is the sad news conveyed by a press dispatch from Winnipeg this week. Their aim was to investigate the possible value of the territory already partially explored by other expeditions. It is believed that the territory contains valuable mineral deposits. Radford was an American and Street a resident of Ottawa, Canada. According to the account which reached Winni- peg by mail September 9, the two explorers set out from Fort Churchill, on the west coast of Hudson bay, in the autumn of 1911 for Chesterfield, where is established the most northern post of the Hudson Bay Company in that region. As soon as winter set in the coast band of natives departed with their dog sleds and trading outfit for the interior, and with them went the two explorers. The Esquimaux returned to Chesterfield before the summer thaw. They reported that at Schultz lake Radford and Street had joined the inland tribe and were preparing to accompany them on a journey deeper into the Northwest when they came away. As this was in accordance with the plans of the ex- plorers, no suspicion of mishap was entertained. But as the summer passed and preparations were being made for the inland trading trip of the follow- ing year, rumors spread among the other coast bands that the story brought to Chesterfield in 1912 was untrue, and that the two white men never would be seen alive. What the Esquimaux are said to have told re- cently is that the trip to Schultz lake was made in safety and that the two white men there made a bargain with the interior natives to accompany them back to their country. There had been no indication of ill-feeling
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