The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1904-05-21
CANADIAN EXPLORER
VISITS ST. PAUL
Capt. Waipole Roland Relates
thrilling Experience i'm the
Wild North.

1 notice by the newspapers that
the remains of Leonidas Hubbard Jr.,
assistant editor of Outing, have been
recovered in Labrador" said Capt.
Walpole Roland, of Port Arthur, on
tario, at the Merchants hotel last
night.
In the early SOS was in charge of
z locating party of engineers in the
Great Salt plain of the Canadian
Northwest, when L saw an object
craving along on the open prairie.
1 was on horseback and unslinging
my rifle was about to try my skill
with the weapon when something IN
usual arrested my aim. 1 felt that
possibly the object might be. human
being, for white, haggard face turn
ed towards me gave me an instant
suggestion that no wild animal could
have that look
Il gal1oped forward and found a lad
or about seventeen to eighteen years
Valnly trying to escape me by crawling
into large badger hole. | grappled
with the boy, and while he tried to
bite me / succeeded in overpowering
MN and tying him to a stake with
natter. When the others of my party
came up we succeeded in getting some
beef broth and whisky down the young
fellows throat, and after two or three
days attention and treatment he be-
came sufficiently rational to tell his
name and the circumstances by which
he became like a beast of the field.
The boy had been attached to
surveying party and had lost himself
while picking berries one Sunday
HeartleSsly, the chief of the party had
pulled stakes and moved on without
waiting to locate the wanderer, and
consultation with a calendar after
wards showed that the poor fellow had
been lost and without food, other than
roots and bark, for just fourteen days.
Our fortunate coming found him u
raving maniac and little pedestrian
the widest animal, but careful Nursing
restored him to his senses, and we
afterwards found his friends and turn
ed him over to them.
Anyone who has been lost in the
wilderness can ever appreciate the
terrible situation, and while it is more
than twenty years since I found that
poor boy on the barren lands of the
Canadian Northwest, l never think of
it without a shudder. Poor Hubbard
who gave his life in Labrador. is Just
as truly a martyr as any of the men
who have persisted in the cause of the
worlds advance"
Capt. WalpoIe Roland is a UNIQUE
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soft wooden shirt and a Highland
Scotch cap with a black silk braid
pendant, he attracted a great deal of
attention in the lobby of the hotel last
night. A snow white mustache and
imperial accented the dark brown skin
gained from a life spent out of doors.
Capt. Roland is a pioneer of the Ca
madam north, and since a visit to St
Paul some months ago has penetrated
to Hudson Bay. He assisted in the
locating and surveys for the Canadian
Pacific road from coast to coast, and
is now engaged in mining ventures He
leaves shortly for the British Columbia
Rockies and will be gone some months.
The Scotch engineer has had a
strange life. Born in India, he was sent
home" to Edinburgh to be educated,
and later attended the Royal Military
college When a young man he volun-
teered to help the Turks whip Russia
and was in the battle of Sebastopol,
the fact being evidenced by medals i'll
his possession. Then he went to Per
STA, spent short time in India and
later, four years in the Chinese army.
He was at Fort Garry-where the pros
porous city of Winnipeg is now To-
eated-when it contained not more thar
half a dozen prairie shacks, and has
been on the outskirts of civilization in
the Northwest for the past thirty years.