The watchman and southron. (Sumter, S.C.) 1881-1930, December 11, 1895, Image 9
WEDNESDAY, DEC. ll, 1895.
On Snow shoes to the Barren
Ground.
Far to the northwest, beginning
ten day's journey beyond Great
Slave Lake and running down to
the Arctic ocean, with Hudson Bay as
its eastern and Great Bear Lake and
the Coppermine River as its western
boundaries, lies the most complete
and extended desolation on earth,
That is the Barren Grounds, the land
whose approximate 200,000 square
miles (for its exact area is unknown)
is the dwelling place of no man, and
its storms and sterility in its most
northerly part are withstood the year
round by no living creature save the
muskox. There is the timberle6s
waste where ice-ladened blasts blow
with hurricane and ceaseless fury
that bid your blood stand still and
your breath come and go in painful
stinging gasps ; where rock and
lichen and moss replace soil and 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-shces dur?
ing the frozen period, which occu
pies nearly nine of the year's twelve
months. The deadly cold of 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 so rapidly
by canoe as on snow-shoes, nor go so
far north for the best of the musk-ox
hunting, nor see the Barren Grounds
at their best, or worst, as you care
to consider it. That is why I chose
to make the attempt on snow-shoes
Arthur Heming, the artist, and I
found ourselves, December 2T, 1894,
at Edmoudton, 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 beads
and glittering tinsel. I really ought to
include the mounted policeman,for he
too has a uuiform which, with scarlet
jacket and yellow-stripped breeches, ?6
deserving of greater attention. But
the mounted policeman has that which
is far worthier of comment than uni
form He has the reputation of be?
ing the most effective arm of the
Canadian interior Department And
he lives up to il. These "Riders of
'the Plains/' as they are called, patrol
a country so large that the entire
force may !o6e itself within its "do
mains and still be miies upon mi!e6
apart. Yet this comparative handful
maintains order among the iawless
white men and stays discontentment
among the restless red 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 of the Northwest
Mounted Police may be accredited to
its system of distribution through?
out the guarded territory. Unlike
our army, it does not mass its force
in forts adjacent to Indian reserva?
tions. Posts it has, where recruiting
and drilling are constantly going for?
ward, but the main body of men is
scattered in twos and threes over the
country riding hither and tither-a
watch that goet? on relief after relief.
This is the secret of their success,
and a system it would well repay our
own government to adopt The
police are ever on the spot to advise
or to arrest. They do not wait for
action until an outbreak has occur?
red ; they are always in action.
They constitute a most valuable
peace assuring corps, and I wish we
had one like it.
A NEW YEAR'S DANCE IN THE NORTH?
WEST.
Half-breeds-French and Cree
constitute the larger share of popu?
lation ai La Biche, if I may class as
its population those scattered over
the immediately surrounding country,
and where the settlement coasts of
just three cabins besides the Hudson
Bay Company's. But, after all, the
French blood reveals itself chiefly in
a few Christian names and in the
more fanciful coloring and use of
some articles of wear, for there is
little French spoken, the children of
mixed parentage almost invariably
adop'*ng the mother tongue, Cree.
There are not more than one hnndred
Crees who come into LaBiche, which
is the most northerly post where j
treaty money is given, and they are j
not thriving to any great extent, nor
increasing. The annuity of about
five dollars a head is not sufficient to
support and just enough to interrupt
keen hunting; ihey plant a few pota?
toes, which grow here fairly well, ?
but are making no progress towards
self-support, as are those of the same
nation more to the South.
After what I had seen the night be- I
fore of the preliminaries to the an- ,
nual feast day, I did not expect on :
New Year's to be able to make any j
preparation for our further progress.
Long before we had turned cut of;
our blankets the house was literally I
packed with Indians, and by neon j
time the fiddle was going and the
dancers had entire possession of the !
floor. I doubt if I ever saw outside
of some of the Chinese dens in San
Francis?e, so many crowded into the
j same space. I lacked the heart to
talk business with Gairdner, who, I
divined from some of his remarks,
had not accomplished, in the way of
making ready of our dog brigade, al! I
had expected of him. I simply pitied
him for the unpleasant and malodo?
rous fullness of his home, and I pitied
his half breed wife and her daughters,
who were kept cooking for and feed
j ing half starved Indians from early
mom until late into the night. Hem?
ing took his pencil and scratch pad
and I my camera, and wt went out
to see the New Year's day arrivals
and the dogs and the Indians
In front of the fort's stockade were j
gossiping groups that grew with j
each fresh arrival, while scattered all
about the enclosure, just where their
drivers had left them, were the dog
trains of the Indians who had come
to fill Gairdners house and eat the
Hudson Bay Company's meat. There
was no stabling nor feasting for these j
dogs; in a 24 below zero atmosphere
they stretched out in the SHOW and
waited, without covering, and many
eases without food. The Indians
with 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 faded awa}T on the
close inspection thai 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 of my plates show
them scurrying away or turning their
backs. It was only after the most
elaborate descriptions fco Gairdner,
who instructed the interpreter, who
explained to the Indians, that we in?
duced one or two "types" to sit in
our presence while Heming sketched
them. They thought we were mak?
ing "medicine" against them, but
were won over by Heming drawing
the moose and caribou, while they j
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 fir6t thirty-six hours
of our stay at LaBiche. Formel 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 as it did not become an
impartial officer to distinguish in this
respect between old women and
young, unattractive and attractive,
the feast was substituted : so now the
women are fed and danced instead of
being kissed.
I hope that New-Years' night
will not be recorded 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?
joyed them until about one o'clock;
then we retired. Weall three slept
in Gairdners office, a tiny apartment
cut from the main room by a thin board
partition, of which a good quarter j
section in the centre was removed to
admit of the two rooms sharing a
single stove There was a piece of
loosened sheet-iron tacked to the
partition to protect it from the heat,
and my head was against thal parti?
tion, and our blankets on the samn
flour upon which those Indians
sprinted and jumped and shuffled !
by Casper W. Whitney, in Harper s
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