Show indian ingenuity lit in hla his preface to antarctic daa daye sir ernest shackleton tells tella an amus ing little story of northern canada A government geologist with infinito infinite labor had collected some very in te resting geological specimens in a region far beyond civilization most alost of the collecting was waa done on the barren ground miles northeast of the great hear bear tho the scientific man and the porters of the party carried tho the rocks on their backs to the great ar lake paddled miles across M lake and alternately paddled and r t aged 1600 miles up tho the mackon macken slavo and athabasca rivers the last portage was half a mile long at the grand ot of the atha baach and it als was done by indian em aloyes of the hudsons Hud sons day bay compary tile indians were ingenious men find and they still tell with pride how they saved much labor by emptying all the heavy bags and boxes at tho the lower end ohl A greenhead fly of 0 f the rapids and filling them agair at the upper end with rocks of similar weight uy BY this means they ivila a mile of difficult didi cult carrying the substitution was found out a year later I 1 in ottawa |