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Show j STEFANSSON. POLAR EXPEDITION SAILS J . i Official ceremonies having been j' held and Dr. Vilhjalmar Stefansson !. and party Hailed from Victoria, B. C, I the other day, on an exploring and ethnological expedition in the Arctic : on the steamer Karluk. The official j' photographs of the members of the scientific staff were taken for the t government archives and a luncheon .! was given to Mr. Stefansson by the ! members of the government of British Columbia. i At the end of the luncheon Sir Richard McBrido, on behalf of the ; people of British Columbia, presented to Mr. Stefansson a silver plate engraved en-graved with a suitable legend and containing also the names of all the t members of the staff. I Doctor Anderson, who commands ! the Victoria Island division, and Cap- t tain Bartlett of the Karluk also re- piled on behalf of the expedition. The Stefansson expedition differs I from most of the other Polar under- takings in that its objects are practical and commercial, us puipuaca w learn whether a Polar continent exists; to map the islands already discovered j. Past of the mouth of the Mackenzie river; to make a collection of the Arctio I flora nd fauua; to survey the channels among the islands lu tie hope cf ! established t-VjiJej routes. i : |