The Innocent Eye: The Life of Robert J. Flaherty by Arthur Calder-Marshall

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K. Leith and he was a geolo on Northern Minnesota and Michigan. He, like Robert H. gical expert a that the fabulous Flaherty and others, had been pursuing the theory iron-ore deposits of Northern Minnesota would reappear farther north. The prospecting which Robert H. Flaherty had done in Northern Ontario had shown iron-ore float similar to the Minnesota ores in the boulder debris in various parts of the height of the land. But the source was never found. summer Dr. Leith had detected in the Nastapoka Islands deposits similar to those of the Lake Superior region, but not In his brief visit in his tentative opinion sufficiently rich to exploit.

They had still another laughing fit. that The humour of this izing in it. Not when tribute over typical only within logical ; but they be wasted is were more of Flaherty. There their limitations sensible. In the as their is guns were nothing patron were the Indians quite North matches shouldn't was to pay a live coal will serve as well. Later he and over again to the Eskimos who saved his life by their better adaptation to the climate than his. As they drew out of Indian country, forests gave way to sparse clumps of dwarfed trees.

They crossed the peninsula of Cape Jones and came on their first encampment of Eskimo. [31] THE INNOCENT EYE They were post-trained, three men, their wives and a host of children, incongruously clad in a mixture of trade clothes and native fur costumes. One woman wore fur trousers over a tattered gingham skirt. To the headman, Wetunik, the Indians passed over the respon at Great sibility of taking Flaherty to the Hudson's Bay Company Whale, the nearest outpost to the Nastapoka took their leave.

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