The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1904-04-02


you my telegram that I will send for
ward by the mail carrier to be trans
mitted toiyou by CABLE from Chateau
Bay, the nearest telegraph office, will
have been received by you and you will
know of Mr.. Hubbard's sad death, but
not. until you receive this, the details.
But before going into the details OF
that 1 viii say that L am in perfect
health, better I think than ever before
in my hfe-with the exception of a
frozen toe that has taken long to heal.
GOING FOR PHYSICIAN.
Tomorrow morning, December 4th. /
leave here for a lumber camp ON Goose
Bay, or near it, at the mouth of Grand
river, to see the only physician within
several hundred miles. The lumber
people keep him there to attend any
man that may be injured. go by
Esquimaux dogs and comatic (sledge)
with an Esquimaux named Willie
Ikeyasmy Qiriver), three big dogs from
the Hudson Bay Company, "Cracky''
Carrots and Dollar" and two from
the French Company positive dogs in
ALL The French Company manager,
who has been very kind to me, as has
every one here, also sends Willie, who
is in his employ, to take me up. It is
a drive of twenty miles eachsway.
shall probably be able to tell you about
it in this letter, as L shall be back be-
fore winter mail goes out, December
18th.
From October until January there is
but one mai from here, which leaves
by dogs and from Comatic December
18th and from Rigoulette on Christmas
Ia r -,e,k
and ST. Lawrence to the railroad, 1900
miles away, so this will be in your
hands probably the latter part of Feb
ruary.
Now to the story of our terrible ex-
perience in this awful country. We
plunged madly into the interior of an
unknown country. into regions never
before trod by white men, with almost
no provisions. For our trip we should
have had $50 pounds of hour-we had
120 pounds: We should have taken 200
pounds of bacon or pork-we had %
pounds; and 50 on all down the line.
On July 18th we left Northwest river
and on August LIST We're practically out
of the woods. We were seated to the
skin nearly every day until the middle
of September. and often slept in wet
clothes and wet blankets. From the day
we left here until September 18th none
of us went into camp a single night
with dry feet. yet none of US had a. cold
or any indication of one. AS I stated,
our food supply was exhausted early in
August.
TOO COLD FOR FISH.
On August Sd we killed four geese; on
August 18th a big stag caribou; from
that time forward we lived on caribou
meat, which NE had dried, but which
was soon gone, and at long intervals
goose or duck or grouse which we sue
ceeded in killing with our rifles and pis-
tolls, and fish we caught with our rods.
Early in September the weather grew
too cold for the fish to bite. Until then
we did very well. but after that we
often were without anything to eat and
Dur meals were simply tea Our salt
and sugar We're gone early and we ate
boiled and drank the water
N which our food was boiled. Birds,
grouse, ducks, etc, We're eaten wholly,
heads, entrails, feet and everything but
he feathers, and every part of the fish.
At length, about the middle of Sep
ember, or a little earlier, we reached
some large lake away in the interior.
from a high, barren hill the great lake
We had been aiming for could be seem
lake Miehakaman. The wind II 70
lowing a gale the day we reached "a
nd we We're for two weeks ufiia StreS
rnhs,ed NO. ,as Sisr.,e;c,gss9 For. n