The Long Labrador TrailOuting publishing Company, 1907 - 315 pàgines Author's expedition 1905-1906 from Hamilton Inlet to Lake Michikaman along the route followed by Leonidas Hubbard, Jr. in 1903. Botanical, geological, and meteorological appendix with tables. |
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Pàgina 65 - Till a voice, as bad as Conscience, rang interminable changes On one everlasting Whisper day and night repeated — so : "Something hidden. Go and find it. Go and look behind the Ranges — , \ Something lost behind the Ranges. Lost and waiting for you. Go!
Pàgina 135 - ... was delicious indeed, together with a bladder of refined fat so clear that it was almost transparent. The encampment consisted of two deerskin wigwams. One was a large one and oblong in shape, the other of good size but round. The smaller wigwam was heated by a single fire in the center, the larger one by three fires distributed at intervals down its length. Chief Toma occupied, with his family, the smaller lodge, while the others made their home in the larger one. This was a band of Mountaineer...
Pàgina vii - Providence willed that it should become my duty to fulfill 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...
Pàgina 259 - ... seal oil, for the country is bare of wood. The fuel for the mission house is brought from the south by the steamer. The Eskimos at Ramah and at the stations south are all supposed to be Christians, but, naturally, they still retain many of the traditional beliefs and superstitions of their ancestors. They will not live in a house where a death has occurred, believing that the spirit of the departed will haunt the place. If the building is worth it, they take it down and set it up again somewhere...
Pàgina 208 - ... in startling combinations of blue, red and yellow, painted on with dyes obtained at the Post or manufactured by themselves from fish roe and mineral products, When the garment has a hood it is sometimes the skin of a wolf's head, with the ears standing and hair outside, giving the wearer a startling and ferocious appearance. Tight-fitting deerskin or red cloth leggings decorated with beads, and deerskin moccasins, complete the costume. Some beadwork trimming is made by the women, but they do...
Pàgina 27 - My object was to trace the old Indian trail and explore as much of the country as possible, and not to hide myself in an enclosed river valley.
Pàgina 154 - ... therefore the Indians always collected here in late summer; it seems to have been such an important centre and for so long that Hudson's Bay Company set up one of their trading stations on the northern shore of the lake: Erlandson Lake Post [?]. As late as 1905 WALLACE wrote that Indian House Lake was a general rendezvous for the Indians during the summer months when they congregated there to fish and to hunt reindeer. In the autumn they scattered to the trappinggrounds, where the fur-bearing...
Pàgina 62 - Sunday morning was still stormy, but before noon the rain ceased, and Duncan announced his intention of starting homeward at once. We raised our flags and exchanged our farewells and Godspeeds with him. Then he left us, and as he disappeared down the trail...
Pàgina 283 - Mrs. Mumford made us most welcome, and entertained me in the doctor's house, and was as good and kind as she could be. I must again express my appreciation of the truly wonderful work that Dr. Grenfell and his brave associates are carrying on amongst the people of this dreary coast. Year after year they brave the hardships and dangers of sea and fog and winter storms that they may minister to the lowly and needy in the Master's name. It is a saying on the coast that "even the dogs know Dr. Grenfell,"...