Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1905-11-09
TWO EXPLORERS
Members Of Wa|IaCe's Ex-
petition to Labrador
Land at St. Johns After Awful
Experience in Frozen North.
Divided Food With Other Exploring PARTIES.
Latter Thought 10 be Lost.

| st. Johns. n. f. Nov. S.-Jamcs
Richards and Peter Stevens members
Of Dillon Wallace's exploring expedi-
ton TO the interior Of Labrador, ar
rived here, Tuesday. on the mail boat
Virginia. The report they make of sur
! ferings in the wilds from lack of food
has led to the belief that Wallace and
| Eaton. whom they left in September.
in the widest part of Labrador and
headed for the Caribou country, must
| certainly perish
Richards and Stevens gave every
\ ounce of food they could spare to their
companions before parting from them.
| Iii consequence they endured horrible
privations before reaching the coast.
| How Wallace and Eaton could survive
| in 50 deserted Il region with the scar
| city of game which had imposed short
| rationS for weeks seems impossible OF
| connective. Mrs. LeonidaS Hubbards
| expedition which has not been heard
of since it left the coast last June, is
also feared to be lost.
All authorities along the coast say
| that the season has been one Of un-
| usual hardship. snow falling on the up
| lands early in August and game al
most understandable. 1t is unlikely eth
er expedition can reach the coast later
| this sea sOn. and if they fail to do this
death seems inevitable.
Della Wallace the New York lawyer.
was the companion Of I.eonidas Hub
| bard. the explorer, who persisted mis-
era bly, of starvation in the interior of
Labrador in 1903. Hubbard at that time
was making for the hunting grounds of
Nascuppes, Il tribe of Indians never yet
visited by white men.
The horrible sufferings of the un-
| fortunate man, told in the pathctically
graphic Giary which afterward reached
New York, and Mr.. Wallacc's own mar
row escape from death were made the
| subject of a book the lawyer published
on his return. His resistance of The
| Love of the Wild,' so APPLY described
| in that chronicle. did not long endure.
| He left New York at the head OF an
other party, but OIL finishing the work
poor Hubbard had dropped, in the lat
| ter part of May. 1905. and OF June. he
started from Halifax on his way to
Labrador. J. NJ. Richards, a student
! in the school of mining at Columbia.
and C. II. Eaton. IL student of forestry
| on the Vanderbilt estate at Biltmore.
accompanied him with Indian guides.
A week later Mrs. Amina B. Hubbard.
| the explorers widow. followed with a
| party, which included George ElsOn,
| the haIf-breed guide of the dead hus-
band. Then for the first time it became
| known that an eStrangement had
| arisen between Mrs. Hubbard and Wal
| lace, she IN some measure blaming him
! for supposed desertion of her husband.
| Mrs. Hubbard had gone with the first
expedition as far as Rigolct, returning
! to await Hubbard at st. Johns, n. f.
| A Canadian by birth. graduate
| nurse from the Brooklyn Training
| school. as well as from the General Me-
| mortal hospital of New York. Mrs.
| Hubbard was equipped in strength and
| power of endurance for the task. She
| had been the companion Of her husband
| on several previous hazardous expedi-
| lions and could manage canoe or
| stand long marches as well as man.
| She was also a sure rifle shot.
| She carried with her Photographic APP
| paratus and mathematical instruments
| to make a map of the country she ira
| versed.
| Wallace was last heard from. July u,
| at Lake Nippisish. Interior Labrador
| He reported that Mrs. Hubbard's party
| had oassed him and taken another trail.
In August. Indians who came to inland
lumber camps. brought word that Mrs.
| Hub5ards expedition was returning TO
the coast. but nothing was later heard
4 to confirm this.