ASIA TO AMERICA BY CANOE
A PREHISTORIC ROUTE. NEW YORK, July 21. Telegrams from Alaska announce that Father Bernard Hubbard, known as the “Glacier Priest,” has just completed, with eight companions, a dangerous voyage across the Bering Strait, between Siberia and Alaska, in an Eskimo canoe. The party, which was on its way to desolate regions around Point Barrow, the northernmost point of Alaska, had several narrow escapes from disaster, as the. boat, aided by an outboard motor, fought the rough waters over the 250-niile voyage. The canoe was a week overdue when it arrived, and rescue parties had already been formed to search for it. Father Hubbard said he hoped that the voyage ’ would prove that prehistoric migiations from. Siberia could have been made in skin boats similar to his craft. The purpose of his expedition is to study the Eskimo dialects along tlie Arctic coastline.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 6 September 1938, Page 4
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