The Long Labrador Trail

The Long Labrador Trail

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THE LONG LABRADOR TRAIL
by
DILLON WALLACE
Author of "The Lure of the Labrador Wild," etc.
Illustrated
MCMXVII

TO THE MEMORY OF MY WIFE

"A drear and desolate shore! Where no tree unfolds its leaves, And
never the spring wind weaves Green grass for the hunter's tread; A land
forsaken and dead, Where the ghostly icebergs go And come with the
ebb and flow..."
Whittier's "The Rock-tomb of Bradore."

PREFACE

In the summer of 1903 when Leonidas Hubbard, Jr., went to Labrador
to explore a section of the unknown interior it was my privilege to
accompany him as his companion and friend. The world has heard of
the disastrous ending of our little expedition, and how Hubbard,
fighting bravely and heroically to the last, finally succumbed to
starvation.
Before his death I gave him my promise that should I survive I would
write and publish the story of the journey. In "The Lure of The
Labrador Wild" that pledge was kept to the best of my ability.
While Hubbard and I were struggling inland over those desolate wastes,
where life was always uncertain, we entered into a compact that in case
one of us fall the other would carry to completion the exploratory work
that he had planned and begun. Providence willed that it should become
my duty to fulfil this compact, and the following pages are a record of
how it was done.
Not I, but Hubbard, planned the journey of which this book tells, and
from him I received the inspiration and with him the training and
experience that enabled me to succeed. It was his spirit that led me on
over the wearisome trails, and through the rushing rapids, and to him
and to his memory belong the credit and the honor of success.
D. W. February, 1907.

CONTENTS
CHAPTER I
THE VOICE OF THE WILDERNESS II ON THE THRESHOLD OF
THE UNKNOWN III THE LAST OF CIVILIZATION IV ON THE
OLD INDIAN TRAIL V WE GO ASTRAY VI LAKE NIPISHISH IS
REACHED VII SCOUTING FOR THE TRAIL VIII SEAL LAKE AT
LAST IX WE LOSE THE TRAIL X "WE SEE MICHIKAMAU" XI
THE PARTING AT MICHIKAMAU XII OVER THE NORTHERN

DIVIDE XIII DISASTER IN THE RAPIDS XIV TIDE WATER AND
THE POST XV OFF WITH THE ESKIMOS XVI CAUGHT BY THE
ARCTIC ICE XVII TO WHALE RIVER AND FORT CHIMO XVIII
THE INDIANS OF THE NORTH XIX THE ESKIMOS OF
LABRADOR XX THE SLEDGE JOURNEY BEGUN XXI
CROSSING THE BARRENS XXII ON THE ATLANTIC ICE XXIII
BACK TO NORTHWEST RIVER XXIV THE END OF THE LONG
TRAIL APPENDIX

ILLUSTRATIONS
The Perils of the Rapids (in color, from a painting by Oliver Kemp) Ice
Encountered Off the Labrador Coast "The Time For Action Had Come"
"Camp Was Moved to the First Small Lake" "We Found a
Long-disused Log Cache of the Indians" Below Lake Nipishish
Through Ponds and Marshes Northward Toward Otter Lake "We Shall
Call the River Babewendigash" "Pete, Standing by the Prostrate
Caribou, Was Grinning From Ear to Ear" "A Network of Lakes and the
Country as Level as a Table" Michikamau "Writing Letters to the
Home Folks" "Our Lonely Perilous Journey Toward the Dismal
Wastes ...Was Begun" Abandoned Indian Camp On the Shore of Lake
Michikamats "One of the Wigwams Was a Large One and Oblong in
Shape" "At Last ...We Saw the Post" "A Miserable Little Log Shack" A
Group of Eskimo Women A Labrador Type Eskimo Children A Snow
Igloo The Silence of the North (in color, from a painting