The record-union., 1897-07-26


he devoured with the desperation Of
starving man. He vouchsafed the in
formation that his name was Curry,
that he was ON his way to Newfound-
land and that he had Travelled from
Quebec during the last winter. Now,
Quebec is eight hundred miles away
from the Salmon River. The stranger,
if the story We're true, must have
tramped through snow and ice, over
mountains and forests, without any ad-
equate covering from the storms, ana
with only such food as he could pick
up at hpahazard. Old natives of the
coast thought it impossible for any man
to perform such a feat and in such q
short space of time.
Yet the wonders he then claimed TO
have performed were as nothing TO the
wonders he was afterward proved 10
have performed. He was at Henley
Harbor, 10 miles away, by about May
1st There he put up for a day with
John Stone, who reports as follows:
"a man came to my house about the
first of May 1893. Said he had walked
from Quebec during the past winter.
His clothes We're a loose coat, Scotch
cap, a pair of moccasin boots nearly
worn out. He had with him a small
axe and snoWshOes. This being an
island, he came here by crossing on the
ice. The ice broke up and | put him
on the mainland in a boat. He walked
from Henley HarbOr to Cape Charles
over mountains, crossing rivers and
arms of the sea by means unknown TO
us, a distance of over thirty miles, ana
with not a living being within that dis
tance to assist him with food. You
must know that there are no roads in
any part of Labrador. so that in my
opinion he must possess something more
than human endurance to be able to
climb over such high mountains, and
down again into the valleys with many
feet of soft snow and running water to
wade through"
A little later he is heard of at Battle
HarbOr. an island off the mainland
from Cape Charles. He must have got
there by crossing on the ice. There he
said that his name was Crawley, that he
had sister living in the United States,
where he belonged, and that he hailed
from Quebec. Isaac Smith, who put
him up for two days, says he had
large pocketbook with him full of pa
pers, which he kept inside his clothes.
He noticed as a possible indication OF
his religion that he spoke in favor OF
the Pope, 'and he got like madman
abusing me when 1 said anything to the
contrary; so that l had to tell him to
be quiet. When I knelt TO pray before
going to bed he also knelt to pray"
MAN OF EDUCATION.
rr,.+ -. x,-oe n MON Of Gonna edrca-
ton was shown by the fact that he
wrote out a prescription in Latin. But
as nobody could read it and there was
not a drug store within twenty miles,
the quality of the Latin as we'll as OF
the medicine cannot be settled.
On May 22d, a trapper saw the strange
man cross st. MichaePs Bay on ice
that would hardly bear a cat The
trapper was greatly alarmed at his pre-
dicament and expected to see him go
under at any moment. But between
falling through and getting up on the
ice again he reached the shore"
James Ward, a settler in Snug Harbor
gave the man shelter some six days
later. He seemed then much fatigued.
His shoes were so worn that the bare
flesh came in contact with the ground
or snow His feet were bleeding and his
toes frostbitten. I'VE did the best we
could for him, myself and my sister,
saws Mr.. Ward I'VE poulticed his feet,
mended his boots with sealskin, washed
and mended his clothes. During his stay
with US. which was three days, he ap-
peared to be well educated. He used to
read our Bible and sing hymns for US.
4 Io+ ha haInn crp6 n the E,niS-
copal Church. We put him across the
bay, three miles, to Venison Tickle,
where there is a winter station. He
knew nothing about boat. He could
not row a boat, and his hands appeared
soft and fine like those of one not used
to work with his hands,
On June Goth he was at Cartwright,
Sandwich Bay, a hundred miles away
from Venison Tickle. Old trappers de-
clare they never would have deemed it
possible that a man covld have made
his way thither unaided. He must
have swum rivers and inlets, clambered
up precipitous nights. and down again
through raVines. gullies and gulches.
He must have fought his way through
tangled underground forest. and all
this without decent clothes or adequate
shelter from rain and storm, and with
out any food save the heathberries
which he might have found when the
snow melted And so this modern Pill
grims Progress is tracked from place
to place. At each of these he told diff
ferent stories to the people who housed
him. He also called himself different
names-Curry, Cawley, Collins, etc, but
always. strange to say, the name began
with a c.
ATTACKED BY DOGS.
At Rigolette he was attacked by In
dian dogs. and but for the timely in
terposition of the owner would have
been torn to pieces. Crossing the river
here he lost his axe, his sole protec-
ton against dogs and wild animals. AT
Holten. fifty miles farther on. he was
seen to swim across harbor half
mile wide, with his clothes tied above
his head At Windsor HarbOr he was
rescued from imminent death by Cap
tain j. J. Hennessey, who, sailing by
in his schooner. heard an unearthly cry
coming from the shore, IF you do not
assist me tonight 1 shall die"
The Captain lowered a boat. armed
the crew and went on shore. To their
surprise it was no wild and desperate
maniac whom they found, but a weak,
half starved man. who bore all the
traces of having undergone days of
starvation and incredible suffering. He
confessed that he had seen no food for
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