The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1910-11-03
n LAND OF LITTLE STICKS
,hJIH PRsCH arm PIERCED
rUy LAIR anon BtRRENS.
when lhr Nri,rr and EXPLORER Was Down
q. rwo Posn,i- nf fto'is >i1og Came
trr rIr>t taribSu Seen i0 T~" weeks
part, Rrarhsd indian Housr Lake.


parD Rrarhsd indian Hou'< Lake.
-Nhr mean Ia say in thar voi might
..r., ,,II ~ . bir II n dramatic moment
go, w.,r. ma th.. nrsiile 81 che Labrador
h,rrru- with only two pounds nt noar
81. and YOU should So, the first deer yoa
h,A encountered in two weeks, A great
t..l , .-rv great deal-wo,ild depend.
,ou know on your hitting tina, deer
n ur,Leuh Prichard. an Englishman
oh, write. and WIN plays cr:sasst e..'i
goes ,T INTO strange r'pintras, IA
sx,-h ~ bag game. would not admit
,,,,y.. han This on., hypothetical circum-
stsp,s as having any relevancy on The
h.rishtp IL the trip h. has inst finished
,h,on ch an unmapp-d portion of Iabra-
d,, when h. was asked at the Prince
,s,rsr Hotel Yesterday u tell something
-, Inc. achievement IN which hs sharesi.
n, Prichsrd il 80 accustomed In taking
Il ,uugh IN Patagonia. IN Hayti ami other
unpl-a-sni places away from well ap-
po,n,.i tables that hes cloaks with II single
modest CLAUSE hat ons more amateirish
might expand into columns Of sensational
reading matt-t
P.,pl, who have not Rad The Chron-
,,.-- II Ilpn y that history of an eugag-
,nc spanish hrigund which Mr. Prichard
vrnt. IN collaboration with his mother.
ks,- Pr,chari a fs~ wears ago. may have
A stIl more. intimate recollection of MIR.
'Prlchard. who brought the Mary lehons
,rrkm club over here ia 1907 Ia play
A match series with The Staten lslani
and PHILADELPHIA Cricke, clubs Perhaps
they recoll.ct that MIR. Prichard was
about feet , lnrhcs tall proportion~d
accordingly and an athlete. every bit
Of him
He sad Yesterday that non. IT III. three
who went into tho heart Of Labrador
cnrld have made the trip unless
very n, Tn" explorer saerl..l to
10 -trl very nr although IL has been
TO months SINCE he took his hell in peg
nv p.-g VI IN tn" land whore nothing hat
n,.ss and l-Aur-utian rocks grow
You .a.. II this way Mr. PrirH arI
began tho narration Of his experiences IN
IN" no1h = had been three times in
Newfoundland doing a good bf ri hunt
ing and knock nS about IN the rough parts
and m an "a. year Mr. Hubbard was
ln-t there. ~s~ a bit Of the Labrador
mind YOU. they all call il the Labrador
up there But | had not seen quite
enough 81 u and this year I determined
to 60 back aud see how far could go into
tn. whts country The white country.
vou know ~ the territory which IN still
unmapred. the same territory that l."Oni.
das Hubbard and Dillon Wallace tried
to u-netraie al the tim. they starved so
terribly
There il really only one nan who knows
ANYTHING about the interior Of the I.Ibra-
dor and ne il 40 modest. or retiring. which
ever YOU would call It. that ha never say,
ANYTHING about what he knows Tha' -
John Cabot Mr. Cabot has made
clr>,uns into the interior abov" fiani-
ton lulea and he knows the way 80 gel
,hsrs bui when | came over this Summer
santr ID to pick out new ~av for nvs'lf.
rhrSng that II I -ho aid H. turn0i back
on my own trail could 20 down and enter
Oy-r MIR Cabot's SO G. VI Hardy. who
- a sportsman Oh th. other SADIE. and Rob
or, Porter, q Nswtounil Inder. and my.
,aIf vent straight to Nam, tn" h!ghe-.
settlement on the Labrador coast. w
steamer direct from England and from
Main ~e mad. our excursion westward
into rhs wilderness
Mr. richard added parenth.ticaIiy
that IN EEkimos and the few whites AZ
'his w dsxept outpost Of civilization had
all urgs,i against their adventure. saving
hat th"S would never ONE cut alive from
he shit. lands beyond the litil.. fripges
n settlements on the coast Hubbard
and Wallace h adj had tn" IA me experience.
sl th" Labrador folk ar. TN terror OF Tho
great barrsn- on WHOSE al irts 'ter find
praCarIous livelihood
Neyerr hel.-. | had figured y OF
thai "" could strike straight inland. S',d
ny ssis after ~" Grno, ,n;, h; ,osa
Huusa Lake or Nchikanau that y .rbard
haS mad. ms objective. Nr Prichard
cpn'in'.i II va. a -por-. ng chance.
y0a know | was quite willing tn take II
We decided that could only carry
eTuIgh food barely 10 support life and
tina We would have Z" trust ,n living ~
the country Mr. Hubbard followed The
Fam" practice. bat his parry unforu
na-ely dId not have the luck did
hos wasted mos; % their energy figh.ing
ihe bush along an impossible route.
We had an Eskimo whom We called
B'A[ for II was Boa. Won remember.
rhn led he feet o! Ruth lu,n an alien
!ard and "" took him along with NJ for
While but no was wort HESS for tbs. most
ra"' and he att uP more then his worth
- tpDd. by canoes We made our way
~ n" Frazer River. which was incor-
rsr''Y chartsd on the maps. until We came
rug lake beyond the lake the river
aT~w more and More oagh a. ~ passed
'E-pugh = gorge with walls over a thou
-a"i feet high. should say Finally We
'b'" ache Of mort OF our supplie-,
'.-rrVlng only our emergency walking
I'D. lUs In that and lies caches VI.
If .sr-a, quantity II food against oar
'''pn. believing. and with right good
t"a'on. - - turned otlt. that We would
l. cry hungry when Ne returned
u was a beast III climb from the
rF"- 40 20 IN. highlands. ! do NOD he
"E" IA, have ever had such q climb
Ntu ~I'h oJr packs and he very fhici;
h,-h Nh-D We got To the top we found
'''-e,.rs On "A great highland hat
stretch fer untold miles away 10 the
N-t- "sri and W. also found that We We're
m h" barren lands The Indians call u
M Land II iItil. Sticks, | b-IIeve
And th"y ~ Jolly we'll right th~r. ar" very
h'fI" -'l"k- 10 be found when yOI want
o. r'4.'i a rrr For the rest Just reindeer
MOS anI rocks bald Laurent iHD rocks
".t - N" cont inent
W. carried fifty pounds apiece, There
Wa -Four tea. chocolate food. sorghum.
rc" and soup squares. The advertise
h.-h' ~ tuO-H soup squares said that they
"ef" sustaining. maybe they were. bat |
H. ~ for Nr.r lin.