The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1906-10-21

We were advised to send the two
canoes and outfit by wagon and take
the other two canoes and go UP the
river. We did SO. making the fifteen
portages. The trip was concluded by
o'clock in the afternoon.
Only Unpleasant Experience.
We had q distressing experience at
hlock's. We met an old Indian on one
of the portages, who was in great dis
tress. His nephew had shot himself in
the left arm with a shotgun, and was
then on an island in the river rapids
The old man had been on the portage
for three hours anXiously waiting for
aid. He had sent A man to KIock's for
help, but he had not reached the right
people and no help was sent
We took the word to KlOck's. and
Mrs Klock got up steam in her launch
and went down Lac des Quinze as far
as she could with help. A fierce storm
arose and they had to stay on the ISL
and. They became alarmed that the
young man would die and refused to
move him for many hours until priest
could be brought TO the scene. The
priest had TO come long distance from
North Temiscamingue. A physician
sportsman who was found in the neigh
borhood by Mrs. Klock dressed the
wound, and the injured man was taken
TO the Klock farmhouse.
Night of Horror.
That night was one of the most dis
tressing l ever spent in my life. Our
room was directly over the one occu-
pied by the injured Indian, and used as
an operating room. There were no an
aesthetics so far from civilization, and
the amDutation Of the arm was made
with the primitive instruments that
were TO be had at hand.
But l am running a little ahead of
the story. A fierce storm had arisen,
as I said, and Mrs. Klock was unable
to return TO the farm with the injured
man the first night. That night we
were all worried greatly for her safety,
and could not rest. 1t was the second
night that the operation took place.
Game Is Plenty.
To show you how plentiful game is in
that far away country, / might say
that the priest shot a black bear on enc
of the portages with % rifle. We
went on from Klock's, but were wind
bound few miles out. We were COM
PEELED to put the canoes into the shore
to prevent being swamped. The lakes
in that country are large and shallow
The fierce gales that sweep down upon
them throw up such high waves rr at
While we were eating lunch in the
shelter Of the windbreak. Mir. Miller
saw black bear across the arm of the
lake. probably 400 yards away. 1 got
my gun, 1903 Savage rifle, and fired
at him, but missed. This shows how
plentiful the game is in that section
Rivers Are country's Highways.
We kept going farther and farther
from the last outpost of civilization.
The next thing that impressed us was
that the streams and lakes of the re-
gion were the great highways. We met
great Hudson Bay canoes, thirty feer
in length. They are of birch bark and
four or five Indians paddle them. These
canoes can transport more than ton
of freight. They were going south for
provisions for the winter atfhe Hudson
Bay trading post farther north. All of
these canoes were manned by Indians.
Mr.. and Mrs. Mead went on to the
Hudson Bay post, although we did not.
We were within fifty miles of the post.
but we went to hunt
The chief of the Abbitibi Indians
passed our camp. All travellers stop to
speak and exchange greetings with all
the people they meet on the water
ways. The guides continually meet,
friends, and in this way they exchange
information and such news as may
reach them.