Miss C. Gordon Cumming, who holds a magnificent record of daring and adventure in strange lands, and once checked a rebellion in Samoa

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Lecturing before the Royal Geographical Society afterwards, Mrs. Hubbard said that she started from the North-west river post with a crew of four men, one being a Canadian and the others Indians or half-breeds. Her courage was equal to all the difficulties and dangers of such an enterprise. Halfway on their journey they arrived at Height of Land, where she found the sources of the two rivers, the Nasaupee and the George, which were only 300 yards apart. She was the first of the white race to set foot on the Great Divide between these, two rivers. Near here they saw the first Indian camp. A large crowd assembled on the shore, firing guns. They were all women and children, Mon-tagnias Indians, the women being in a state of terror and shouting, "Go away, we are afraid of you; our husbands are away." One of Mrs. Hubbard's companions understood the language, and when he said," We are strangers, and are passing through your country," the shrieks of the women were turned into laughter, and the travellers were invited to the camp.

A ten-thousand-mile journey from Chicago to the Arctic regions, traversing Canada from the southern boundary to the northernmost, mainly on foot, horseback, and in bullock waggons - such is the record of Miss Agnes Deans Cameron, another intrepid lady explorer. A quiet, sweet-faced, middle-aged lady, Miss Cameron's feat ranks as one of the most remarkable accomplished by the steadily growing band of women explorers, who vie with men in discovering new wonders of the world.

Many an exciting incident happened during her 10,000 mile trip. On one occasion she had to traverse over 100 miles of rapids, and narrowly escaped drowning through her boat capsizing. She passed through country where no woman had previously trod.

Mrs. Bullock Workman, who probably knows more about the Himalayas than anyone in the world

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No woman, however, has been so far north as Mrs. Peary, who as a bride followed her husband to the Arctic regions, and is. the only woman who has ever wintered with an expedition in that portion of the globe ; her daughter, indeed, was born in the Arctic regions. It is concerning this event that Commander Peary writes in his book "Northward over the Great Ice " : " On September 12 (1891) an interesting event occurred at Anniversary Lodge in the arrival of a little nine-pound stranger, Mary An-nighito Peary. This little blue-eyed snow-flake, born at the close of an Arctic summer day, deep in the heart of the white north, far beyond the farthest limits of civilised people or habitations, saw the cold grey light of the Arctic autumn once only before the great night settled upon us."

Two of the most notable lady explorers have yet to be mentioned - viz., Mrs. Theodore Bent and Miss Gordon Cumming. The latter has a magnificent record of daring and adventure in strange lands, and there are few dark corners of the earth into which she has not penetrated. An invitation to spend a year with a married sister in India awoke her taste for travel, and led to further extensive wanderings extending over twelve years. From California to Ceylon, from Tibet to

Africa, Miss Cumming has been everywhere. She has played at Crusoe on almost every island in the South Pacific ; she has climbed the Himalayas, and feasted with the Fijians; she has checked a rebellion in Samoa; she has explored New Zealand and climbed Californian crags. In fact, it would be easier to say where she has not been than to say where she has been.

Asia Minor, Persia, Mashonaland, Abyssinia, Eastern Soudan, and South Arabia. These are some of the out-of-the-way corners of the globe which Mrs. Theodore Bent has penetrated when she accompanied her late husband on his archaeological expeditions. She has had several narrow escapes from death. In South Arabia she was nearly shot by bandits, while on another occasion she was ordered to dismount "in order that her throat might be cut."

This article would scarcely be complete without mention of those enthusiastic mountaineers Mrs. Bullock Workman and Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond. While the latter has climbed nearly every peak worthy of the name in the Swiss Alps, Mrs. Bullock Workman probably knows more about the Himalayan mountains than any other person in the world. Mention might also be made of Miss Friere-marreco - well known at Somerville College, Oxford, where she holds a research fellowship - who is at present living with a tribe of Pueblo Indians in New Mexico.

Mrs. Aubrey Le Blond, who has climbed nearly every notable peak in the Swiss Alps Photo, Kate Pragnell