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Lord Lonsdale’s travels in the Arctic regions: Esquimaux cemetery, Noumachock, Alaska, 1890. Creator: Unknown.

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Lord Lonsdale's travels in the Arctic regions: Esquimaux cemetery, Noumachock, Alaska, 1890. 'The enterprising and courageous performance of the Earl of Lonsdale in travelling northward, from the Saskatchewan River of the Great Western Territory of Canada to the shores of the Arctic Ocean, and thence crossing Alaska westward to the North Pacific...has excited much attention...Few people...have made acquaintance with those desolate regions...It was on Feb. 22, 1888, that his Lordship left England for Canada, determined to travel as far as he could overland in the Far West of the American continent..."we camped at Noumachock village, late at night, having made sixty miles that day. I regret to say that, during that time, some of our dogs froze to death; we had therefore to wait all the following day, to get others to take their place. Some of the men also had suffered severely from the cold, which was here very intense. Here, at Noumachock, there is a most curious graveyard. The Esquimaux, in this part of the country, always plant, on a pole or standard, over the grave, the articles belonging to the man who has died, and erect also rude wooden monuments to his memory".' From "Illustrated London News", 1890.

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Photo12/Heritage Images/The Print Collector

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HRM25A51_081

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10,4Mo (1,0Mo) / 20,1cm x 12,9cm / 2378 x 1525 (300dpi)

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