The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 11, 1895, Image 8
f|t '??attjjmait at? Soutjjnm.
WEDNESDAY, DEG. IL 18G6.
On Snow-Shoes to the Barren
Ground.
Far to the northwest, beginning
ten day'a journey beyond Great
Slave Lake and running down to
the Arctic ocean, with Hudson Hay aa
its eastern and Great Bear Lake and
the Coppermine River aa ita western
boundaries, lies the most complete
and extended desolation on earth.
That ia the Barren Grounds, the laud
whose approximate 200,000 square
miles (for its exact area is unknown)
is the dwelling place ot no man, and
its storms and sterility in its moat
northerly part aie withstood the year
round by no living creature save the
i?u?k ox. There is the timberlesa
waste where ieeladened blasts blow
with hurricane and ceaseless fury
that bid your blood stand atilt and
your breath come and go in painful
stinging gaaps ; where rock and
lichen and moas replace aoil und trees
and herbage ; and where death by
starvation or freezing dogs the foot?
steps of the explorer.
There are two seasons and only
two methods of penetrating this
great lone land of the North-by
canoe, when the watercourses are
free of ice, and on snow-shoes dur?
ing the frozen period, which occu
pies nearly nine of the year's twelve
months The deadly cold o? winter,
and greater risk of starvation, make
the canoe trip the more usual one
with the few Indians than hunt the
musk-ox But, because of the many
portages, you cannot travel ao rapidly
by canoe as on snow-shoes, nor go so
far north for the best of the musk-ox
hunting, nor seo the Barren Grounds
at their best, or worst, aa you care
to consider it That is why I chose
to make the attempt on snow-shoes
Arthur Heming, the artiat, and 1
found ourselves, December 27, 1894,
at Edmondton, the end of the rail?
road. We had traveled on the Cana
dian Pacific via Winnipeg and Cal?
gary, and through the land of the
Crees, Blackfeet and Sarcee Indians,
without seeing anything so pic?
turesque in the way of costuming as
the Winnepeg dragoon and a Sarcee
young woman resplendent in beada
and glittering tinsel. I really ought to
include the mounted policeman,for he
too has a uniform which, with scarlet
jacket and yellow-stripped breeches, is
deserving of greater attention. But
the mounted policeman has that which
?9 far worthier of comment than uni
form ile ha? the reputation of be?
ing the most effective arm of the
Canadian Interior Department And
he lives up to it. These "Riders of
the Plainp," as they are called, patrol
A country so large that the entire
force may lose itself within its do
mains and still be miles upon miles
apart. Yet this comparative handful
maintains order among the lawless
white men and stays discontentment
among the restless rrd men in a man?
ner so satisfactorily and so unosten?
tatiously as to make some of our ;
United States experiences read like
those of a tyro
The success ot the Northwest
Mounted Police may be accredited to
ita system of distribution through?
out the guarded territory. Unlike
our army, it does not mass its force
is? forts adjacent to Indian reserva?
tions Posts it has, where recruiting
and drilling are constantly going foi
ward. but the main body of men is
scattered in twos and threes over the
country riding hither and tither-a
watch that goes on relief after relief. |
Thia is the secret of their success,
i?nd a system it would well repay our |
own government to adopt The |
poiiee are ever on the spot to advise
or to arrest. They do not wait for
action until an outbreak has occur?
red ; they ave always in action
They constitute a most valuable
peace assuring corps, and I wish we
had one like it.
A SEW YEARNS DANCE IK TUS XOETtt
WEST.
Halt-breeds-French and Cree
constitute the larger share of popu?
lation at La Biche, if 1 may class as
its population those scattered over
the immediately surrounding country,
and where the settlement coasts cf
ju3t three cabius besides the Hudson
Bay Company's. But, after allene
French blood reveals itself chit / iu
a few Christian names ami the
more fanciful coloring and se of
some articles of wear, for ?ere is
little French sooken. the eb dren of
mixed parentage almost ^variably
adopt!ng the mother tongue, Cree
There are not more tha?? one hundred
Crees who come iuto i^aBiche, which
is tbe most northerly post where
treaty money is given, and they aie
not thriving to any great extent, cor
increasing The annuity cf ??bout
ave dollars a head is not sufficient to
support and just enough tc interrupt
keen hunting; they plant a few pota
toes, which grow here fairly well
bat aie making no progress towards
self-support, as are those ot' the same
nation more to the South.
Alter what i had see o the night be?
fore of the preliminaries to the an?
nual feast day. I did uoi expect on
New Year's to be able to make any
preparation f**r our further progress.
Long before we had lurnea cut of
our ci*nleets the house w*s iitej ?' \
packed with Indians, and by noon
time the fiddle was going and the
deicers had entire possession of the
floor 1 doubt if I ever saw outside
of some of the Chinese dens in San
Francis?e, so many crowded into the
same space. 1 lacked the heart to
talk business with Gairdner, who, I
j divined from some of his remarkH,
had not accomplished, in the way ol
making ready ol our dog brigade, all I
had expected of him. I simply pitied
him for the unpleasant atid malodo?
rous fullness of his home, and I pitied
his half breed wife and her daughters,
who were kept cooking for anti feed
?Hg half starved Indians from early
morn mail late into the night. Hem?
ing took his pencil and scratch pad
and I my camera, and we went out
to see the New Year's day arrivals
and (he dogs and the Indians
lu front of the fort's stockade were
gossiping groups that grew willi
each fresh arrival, while scattered all
about the enclosure, just where their
drivera had left them, were tho dog
trains of the Indians who had come
to lill Gairdner^ house and eat the
Hudson Hay Company's meat. There
was no stabling nor feasting for these
dogs; in a 2-1 below zero atmosphere
they stretched out in the snow and
waited, without covering, and many
cases without food. The Indians
willi their blankets, coats or capotes,
and the dogs and sledges and "jump?
ers." made a picturesque whole
against the unbroken background of
snow, but. like all Indian pictures,
its attractiveness fud ed away on the
close inspection that discovered the
dirt of the man, and the scraggy,
half-starved condition of the beast.
These people had never before seen a
camera, and many ol my plates show
them scurrying away or turning their
backs, lt was only aller the mosl
elaborate descriptions to Gairdner,
who instructed the interpreter, who
explained to the Indians, that we in?
duced one or two "types" io sit in
our presence while Heming sketched
them. Tliey thought we were mak?
ing "medicine" against them, but
were won over by Heming drawing
the moose and caribou, while they
watced the animals they knew so
well develop under his pencil.
When we returned to the house
the dance was still on ; it was always
"on" during the first thirty six hours
of our stay at LaBiehe. Formet ly
the Hudson Bay Company officers
merely "received'* on New Year's
day ; but as the Indians have a cus
tom between sexes of kissing on
meeting, and aa it did not become au
impaitial officer to distinguish in this
respect between old women and
young, unattractive and attractive,
th4* feast was substituted : so now the
women are fed and danced iustead of
being kissed.
1 hope that New-Years' night
will not be lecorded against me
Those Indians danced until four
o'clock in the morning, and they
danced to my utter demoralization
We sat around and watched the
"gymnastics" and pretended we en
j*?yed them until about one o'clock ,
then we retired We al) three s!^,i
in Gairdners office, a tiny apartment
cut from the main room by a thin board
partition, of which a good quartet
section in the centre was removed to
admit of the two rooms sharing a
single stove T?tere was a piece of
loosened sheet-iron tacked to the
partition to protect it from the heat,
and my head was agsins: thai parti?
tion, and our blankets on the same
floor upon which those Indians
sprinted and jumped and shuffled !
by Casper W. Whitney, in Harpers
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