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DIARY II AUG.21-OCT.4, 1927
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Deary II
aug 21-bel 4, 1927
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August 21 Sunday
10 A,M
Two months ago today
& last shaved. That does
ed G.P. of
not imply that & now have
and
a beard but at any nate
it is great fun to comb
ad
what is there it - is a
5
very soothing sensation and
ot
+ indulge at least Twice
is
a day with harry's winnor
al,
Pl
and could Relied THE as Morrissey. my our
are
back at the shore at
yesterday on 28 we arrived
at
Camp Walcott just about an
hour before it started to
r
rain. Wg all thanked God
as we had packed no
t
tent with us and had
been spared through Two
threatering days. W2 made
fourteen wiles the last
day and Everyoue was
us
almost dead. We had been
expecting to come back
lightened by the weight
of our food but all ofus
loaded down with fossils
made it suen worse.
G.P. deserves a lot of
that The with his heel
credit for the way he inade
just the borbing water left it in
scalled before we left.
he made the whole way
very bad condition but
He is not especially strong
with very little complaint
physically but has great
courage and will.
and packer i his pack was
Larry is a great walker
looked down with lossils
and be outwalked us all
anyway. He is fine and an
ideal man for an outdoor
kip like this
Dave stood the trip as
wall as could be expected of
a fourteen year old kid. G.P.
was fodish to take him and
swento take him on this
whale Goat trip J think and
This sure he would never
have done it had it not
been for the sabe of Dave's
Dave has never been seen to
book and publicity in in general,
do anything to help in the
way of mabing camp or
cleaning up without his
to do. We come into our
father's telling him just what
rolls out his bed malses it
camping place and be
very comfortable and sits
on it until the meal is
ready. after sating and very
often complaining about the
food he talks with the
husby or fools around doing
nothing until he is told to
turn us. His father spoils
him dreadfully, and then
turus right around and
gives him held for not
doing more. tu spite of
all this he is at times
a most libeable bid
and is a good bunter
and good shot.
work Sex we are sitting
Today thanks to harry's
around camp resting
7
matead of Tearnes on our
way again as the Director
would like to be doing
\
& wore the heels almost all
My feet are sore as hell, and
off those Palmer packs on
this last walk. The chief
hardship of this month's
trip is the dirt. t am really
getting so dirty 7 hate
myself But there is little
chance to wash and no
chance at all to lake off
7
because 7 have no others
any clothes and wash them
along to put on and would
pull through however; and
freeye anyway of hope to
will seem!
what a luxury the Morrissey
George and Barney have just
started out on an all day
walk as they have been
sitting in camp while we
packed wland. They are both
really awfully good fallows.
does not Eat breakfast, some
Barney very temperamental, often
times stubboru as a mule, but
has a very ingenious turn of
when he sets his wind
wind and can fix anything
on something he makes an
excellent job of it. He is a time
workman and speaks of
making chess men and fine
ivory things on his jsevel
interested in figures and
lathe at home. Very much
mental puzzals and calculation
He is fine out doors Too though
not keen on hunting
him alone is very vice
Grorge when you talk to
and a genial type He
and Too loud 4b Sometimes
always Talks too much
we think just for the sahe of
hearing the noise. Hz unight
be called have in that
he asks the most obvious
questions and likes to
discuss at length things that
Else. He craves adventure
are perfectly plain to Every one
bud sometimes seems as
though he were trying to
adventure book, He is
act the hero in a boys
splendid physically and strong
as an OX Has about
mough outdoor mstimet to
get to Harlem as G.P. once said.
He is easily affected and
takes little things much too
seriously for his own good.
7P.M
They have just now
returned from their expedition
and to their own surprise
as much as anyone's
alse they have brought
in two cariboy One is
a very nice head, and
the other Grorge blew to
pieces with my 30-06
Avalisha is greatly amused
by the way they have
been skinned ; as wither
even seen an animal
Barney nor George has sver
skinned before, they are
an odd sight; but the
skins are beautiful what
there is of them Grorge
has to never killed anything
so he is wall satisfied.
before nor hunted atall
This is a lovely praceful
the sun is about to set
suening in Camp Walcott and
under the sage of leavy
clouds. Tomorrow we
wove on and God
only knows when we
rest again with
we see the Morrissey of
at least Cape Dorclusier
August 23 - Tuesday (NOON)
n A.M on The rising tide It
Yesterday we set out about
was a beautiful cold,
calm day and our nun
held several events that
almost proved exciting.
Very shortly after we left
Avalisha signted a white
whole HK sounded several
Times in front of us and
half an hour before be it
we followed hist about
wouch for the harp con.
disappeared never being year
His pushed his ivory white
head out of water ) then
turning over would spout
this a large OOK sook (learded soal
and go down. Soon after
appeared and watched us
with interest Dave shot
and missed him then he
came up less Than 30 yds,
away and stayed there
looking us over. Avalisha
shot him but the harpoon
failed and there were no
sauk in at minute.
hooks handy and he
at Evening we reached
our old camp site on The
God forsaken flat rocks,
as usual harry and &
slept in The good tent,
G.P. and Dave in the
little one and the others
on the boat. This worning
at five o'dock harry and
the iwes to Explore it. They
Grorge started walking up
are to return tought the
taw now on the boat out
rest of us take it Easy here.
at auchor relieving
Baruey who has gove
ashore to Eat. The
our whale boat Vomices
came up over night and
around like a nutshell.
Also it is cold as hell,
the thermoweter went
down to 35° F. last might
7 P.M. harry and George
returned with the news
that there is no river but
just a long cleft in the
back inland for several
rock where the tide goes
wiles. Larry determined the
maximum tide fall here at
twenty Two fret, at Camp
Walcott it was twenty - six feat.
10: 30 After taking some star
turn in Q can of stermo
observo tious with Larry &
has taken the chill off
our tent and it is very
comfortable - swen on solid
rock.
august 26 1 Friday
7:00 P.M.
We set out from the
ago in a good gale that
Camp at Cleft Rock three days
rocked our whole boat and
over End all morning We
went through ice several
times but it was never
a good new - slept on
very heavy and we nuode
a beach that night Going
on the west day (yesterdzy)
we reached our cache at
Cafe Dorchester last night,
and it was a welcome
sight a note was there
awaiting us with news
that the Morrissey after
being I'ce off:
aground on the East side
Spicer Islands and going
of Fox Basin had been here
for Spicer Islands again.
five days 938 and started
We camp here until
harry can get the best
determine the latitude
observations possible to
point For there are to be
and longitude of this
some radical changes in
the map of this part
of the country
has hurried things along as
driving us all craning the
The Director is gradually
fast as he could all the
way, and now wants
to leave here and go on
the Morrissey gets here.
to Cape Dorset before
this is as is usually the
The only reason for all
neason for G. P.'s unaccountable
actions David's book and
publicity. His great ambition
seems to be to wake
David Bimmey Putuam
a
second Jasus Christ aluzighty
in the public eye. He has
wen gone so far as to
suggest that we move on
take his observations 20
at once and that Larry
miles south of here harry
has the night idea of a
good map or no map at
all, so G.P. is halfless there.
anybody working for that
man has my sincere
sympathy when the Director
is off at a Tangent as
is now the case, and
what a man he is
anyway - every worning
wakes us if about Six
or seven and tells us
he didu f know it was
SO
RG sarly to go ahead and
sleep some wore. Everymoming
he sayo just the same
thing; every meal time,
just the same thing,
swears more often and
wore disqustingly than any
than 1 have Ever heard;
always blames some one
Else for Every thing that
most tiresome man in the
goes wrong and is the
world to be with for as
long as this has been
The same pet Expressions
again and again than
which he secus to have
no other vocabulary drive
us all as crayy as bats.
"Everything is going to be all
night is his favorite -and
most annoying
august 27- Saturday 8:00P.M.
Orsterday of & took a long walk
alone from three in the
afternoon until nine at
night It was great exercise
and a usvel sensation to
be alone for so long
It clouded over and the
1 couldn't it see more than
fog rolled in so heavy that
fifty yards for a long hime
some cairus however, f did
By the use of my compass and
not get lost as of started
back it cleared up and &
saw one of the most unusual
sunsets of have ever seen.
Olo the sun, a great dull
red globe among the dark
clouds, approached the horizon
the mays of refraction drew
tike a fafauese lautern of
it out so it looked just
striped orange and red.
after this many other changes
in its shake took place; and
it set finally looking like
a shapeless pink cloud,
Today has been bitter cold
brought the waves piting
and clear. a gale has
up on our rocks and
beach; and has brought
the ice pack from the
boriyon and left it stranded
on our shore as the
tide went out, It is a rarely
beautiful sight with the great.
grounded cabes any where
up to twenty frat in height
looking like glistening white
monsters in fobulous shapes
and poses. all this is
piled high around our
whole boat which has been
drawn as high as possible
on the rocky beach.
We have all froyen most
all day and now of shall
turn in to a bed f have
constructed of rocks and
usess - Esking fashion The
Tent was so noise in the
wind + couldn't sleed
last night. 7 am wall
sheltered from the wind
and trust two of the new
carebou skins over my
we a little bit warm. &
sleeping bag will keep
have only the bed itself no
blaukets onthis trep, but
have been fairly warm
wost of the time. & still
strip to my underwear too.
August 28 - Sunday NOON
the best in a long time-
My sleep last might was
warm and comportable it
was a real change from
the last few wight and
great to be out in the
open too.
windy with the ice in
It is still very cold and
along the shore. We all
pray it will stay there
and hold us in until
the Marrissiy returns -that is
all Except the inhumanly
selfish Director, of whom
the less said at this
point the better Weare
planning all sorts of
things to keep to us here as long
as possible ; And if the
the whale boat trip continues
Morrissey does come and
to Cape Dorset anyway
Dave will not be along
though neither he nor G.P.
may be aware of that
fact at present. That is
one thing the rest of us
are agreed upon.
August 50 a Tuzsday 8P.M.
This is slowly but surely
becoming one of the coldest
places If have wer been all
day Today there has been new
ice on all the little
fresh puddles and the ears
readily and nose freeye very
Ram for one night drove
we back into the tent with
there was f colder last might
harry and George and wen
than f have yet been. Weare,
of course, all under dothed and
under blauketed for weather of
this sort.
The situation has changed
somewhat and now Even
G.P. seams looking forward
to the arrival of the
Morrissey P -which he seems
sure will be toworrow
The wind is still from
the N.W and very stroug
to our harbor.
so the ice sticks firmly
H is with great pleasure
that + can report a
change in Dave's manner,
++ seems that George
spoke to to hin about the
and it Took immediate
way he was acting
effect for the better. HE
5 really an awf alley
good kid and seluis to
Mother when he is not
qualities of his charming
lave wany of the attractive
acting like G.P. which 7
hope it will be unnatural
for him to do Hz and
Avalisha the other day set
about fixing up the
cooking place and with
the use of two extra
sails fixed up a
comfortable thettery where
we rat out of the
wind and 20
d have really started to
of smoked several cigarettes
go to hell wow yasterday
a pipe. + left the good
and today have started
the Morrissey so am
one Dad gave we on
using one that G R. has
along for trading The
combination of a new
Dike and Prince Albert
tobacco is lousey but 7
am Taking it very easy
at the start awyway.
September 1 - Thursday
7.PM
what rotten weather to
start the month with! It
has rained all day and
the wind shifted last
night to to to the S.E. so
it blows in m, or at, our
tent door as harry and
& rotated it the other day
keep blast. out the cold Morth
walked all day on what
yrsterday harry and &
was caribon supposed bunt tabe We had a
a very good walk but
all the game we saw
consisted of your Harmigan
which waited while &
threw several rocksand
we each fired at Them,
of tail frathers from one of
Wy 30-06 matted a bunch
them; we spared their lives.
The coast of this bay is
lived with the 25 kind tent
rings of RG all UNITED ages j and
strewn with SERVIS boues of walrus,
bear, and caribon This is
widentty a favorite hunting
the bones indicate that
ground for them Many of
they have been here quite
recently - parhaps Tarlier
this summer.
The temperature has
still stayed low although
today it has been a
bit warmer 1 about 50° -
probably due to to the shift
that Work Twains description
in wind. Larry suggests
of New England applies
tsland "There is no
equally well to Baffin
climate there just weather"
and most of that has
been bad here,
The Morrisgay has been
expected today as Captain
Bob said not later
than the first. Wz all hope
she gets here tomorrow
schoouer will seem now !
what a luxury the little
September 3- - saturday 3. 3.PM
after litting us sleep until
noon for the last several
days , G,P, called us out
the sun was out for the
at 6 this worning But
juist time in a week and
it was such a lovely
morning no one cared. this
in almost a week.
has been the first clear day
Yesterday was miserable
with cold fog and the
feature of the day was
when the Director brought
Coffee and Discuits to to harry
and me in bed at 10AM
the is a very strange man!
here, There has been no
This is our last day
sign yet of the Morrissey,
Tomorrow in the whale
but we set out early
boat for Cape Dirset -if
she does not show up
Tonight 1 We have taken
beach and have cleared
Every thing down to ther
away Tous of ice so the
the vest tide To further
can go out at
commemorate this our
last day at Capo Darchestra
Co, Peregrine PT.) + had as
shampoo of hair and beard,
and now feel comparatively
clean 3 though I shall not
for as bath - how much
over look the first opportunity
that word means now
after forun weeks in the
same clothes without wen
Taking some of them off !
Saptember 4- - Sunday 5P.M.
not half an hour after
Morrissey polied her rhastboack
my writing yesterday the
up over the worthern
horizon - first called to
our attention by Dave
shouting about two
miles away on the frint.
all tents came down at
ouce we had a hot supper
of our last cocoa and fried
duckling and snife i and backed
to the beach. She came into
everything away and down
the bay about four hours
later and auchored in
silhouette against a more
stunning sunset Than Ever,
The launch came in to
us and Taking one load
of our beds Etc. aboord
we went out for the night.
It was good to see
everyone again and the
advancement of all beards
is astonishing in a wouth
leads the field with his
of absence farry & & think,
bushy rabbi's mask - although
Will is a close second
looking like a true hobse.
Kelly has a thick little
brush that seems to
weigh down his jaw he
looks like a gnome driawn
w a book of fairy stories.
Bob Prary has theory other
worthy of mention i parted
in the widdle it is a
thick red mat webing lim
a traly norse type which
closely watches his nature.
He is quite at home on the
sea and enjoys it more
than anything think
This morning when
the kog lifted we set
out for Cape Dorset The
supplies having come
whale boat and remaining
abourd Earlier
September - -11 Sunday
Dofset where Doc ,Don,
Two days Took us to
and Freddie were anxiously
awaiting us. The day was
Taken up in getting their
things aboard while George
and & worked at magnetic
observations to such an
extent we found no time to
get any Tusks which were
plentiful at this post only
We then moved ou post
hasts as G.P. is always
Two days later we woved
on fire about getting going.
on up Chorkbak that
which is between Dorset
and Awadjuak , and a
favorite hunting ground
object of our visit here
of the Eskinos The
being to investicate and
determine the hitherts
doubtful stent of the
inkt. sailed
We woved about
thirty tive or forty wiles
up the wide and quite
lovely fiord between
steep sugged hills seti
two or three miles apart.
The country seems quite
mountainous after our
sternal platness of the
west coast.
The Morrissey was at
sheltered little cove
ancleor in a very
while the whale boat
set out ou another
trip of exploration. twas
given the option of going
or not ao & wished.
tstayed here for the
sake of the change.
The party this time
was G.P. harry Kell,
Barney Henry, Deric,
and Kavaou,
woved on the high
The Worrissey was
tide and set steru
in to shore subjecting
her propellor to repairs
when the waters should
recede about noon she
touched first and then
chass began as the
tide went out she
settled to starboard and
for a time we thought
she would never stop.
Coming frinally to rest
with her stern high
and dry and her
the horizontal she was
decks party degrees from
the picture of distress.
The water from the
large parcentage of sugine
bilge which contains a
oil moved forward,
and being so far heeled
over, came up into the
fockers and the lower
bunks. Everything in the
lockers was soaked and
the quattresses fdoated in
the lover bunks, the
waters finally came to
a stop just at the
Four of us bailed for
lower sage of my bank.
about two hours and
almost kept up with
the Turush of filthy
water a bucket lowered
through RG whe port batch
dropped 28 straight s to the
starboard lockers and
the resulting affect
inside made the brain
digzy. Prople standing
the table and beuch
at NO° angles from
corvers the port clothes
sticking out from the
waflo and the light
cords hanging all out
of reason combined to
produce the affect of the
original "topsy turvy house".
and now - the whole
boat party back (with no
outstanding success) 8 and
all the lower bunk
cobin is a wess
available position
properties driging in wery
the director promises
beyond description But
cleanliness and order
Toworrow
to was very pleasant
few here in and a relief
outoard with only a
from the strained
atmosphere that pervades
the ood ship when
G.P. is aboard Captain
Bob is certainly a
five old boy HE
knows wore speople
of note than you could
ever think of and has
a fascinating charm in
telling wen the Imallest
incidents His Experience
in the Arctic is greater,
& suppose than that of
this adventures on the
any white was alive,
U.S. R.C, "Bear" on the
"Carlok" with Stefansson,
the shipwracked party at
Draugle Island his
experiences with Prary
and many others are
fiction writer ever dreamed
wore thrilling than any
and he tells of them
all so naturally and
with such a good
appreciation of the
night points. there is
no boast or braa in
his wanner but
it is altogether simple
and this very implicity
wakes it all wore real
than Ever to to his listeners.
Peter and 7 took two
trips in the launch up
the yiord The just day
got us six ducks, the
second three. They are
wilder here than any
we have seem The
old ones fly and the
when you see them and
young dive almost
breath there are about
when they come up to
Two seconds to vail
them in The second
day we saw wany s szal,
which stuck ef
pretty gray heads
again and again t
after shots at six of
scrutinjye our craft.
them d finally hit one
but our ove lung rugine
was too slow and
as we came into the
pool of blood I could
just see him about
ten feet below the surface
sliding down backwards
like a poor dawned soul
to hell. It was less than
thirty seconds after he
must be right on top
had been hist you
Seal steaks are delicious
of them or they are gove.
food. & remember the first
seal of ate in a pie -
and f dislibed it, But
fried steaks swothered in
onions are the best
food we have aboard.
the weat is very dark
and the greasy steak
looks block as tar but
it is tender and a
real delicacy Coptain Bol
calls it the fruit of the
arctic. the says the
British explorers always
nefuse to sat it but
prefer their salt horse
justead i thus it is always
British Expeditions that
are troubled with
scurery which is solly
so uneccess
and 7 went out in
Today harry and Peter
the launch - stay ins
for lunch. w 9 had
lots of glooting at seal
and duck, and brought
back one luck. It
rained hard and was
freeying coldin the worth
wind as we came
back - oilskins are
the only safe dothes
to wear here.
S'Epteenbes 16 Friday
On a beautiful clear
afternoon we strawed out
of Chorkbak. The water
was of swerald; 3 and
from the mosthead seemed
patterned by the tide nips
into immumerable rosettes
and interwoven lines
which shifted here and
There without sud.
The next day about
your pill we dropped
anchor in the harbor
off amadjuak where the
husky camp had been.
Our only greeting was
the grudsome howl of
a big white busky dog
laft alone on the
island He ran up and
down the shore crying
at us in a pitiful way
We paid little attention to
him - Avalisha and
Kavaou intimated he was
left there because he was
mad,
The whale Goat went in
to the post Leaving at
five we got in after
sunset, and the bay,
calm as a wirror
reflected the rugged black
hills on a surface of
burnished gold at the
same time the stars were
brilliant in the deep blue
sky overhead.
at the post Work had
been replaced by one
Thom - a hard blue-syed
thirty He has been much
young was of about
knows his business. and
among the Eskimos and
how he had cleaned
up the house! The erstwhile
pig -pen was now quite
livable and the tood
so much be ther. Thom
bakes good bread, and
teaching to cook - she is
has a new girl he is
a little semi Eskuno
a touch of the white
with a nice yellow skin,
race in her features, fine
dark brown hair in
Two braids a foot below
her waist, and a lovedy
figure - unusual among
nature women. They all
get sway backs and
walk with their legs far
apart - partly from
their backs.
carrying children on
Avalisha's family was
the spare house and
installed in a room of
he returned in the splendor
of a king. Seated on the
Ploor - his new victorola
playing and handing
out hard caudies to the
0 ther huskies from his
twenty five pound tab he
was the every and admination
of his fellows. They
listened in somewhat
gathered around and
genuine wonder at his
Expressionless but yet
Tales of the distant lands
he had seen - the prairies
of the blue geese - the
strange ways of the
white men who killed
polar bean with revolvers,
and wen caught them
and put them in their
large boat Coomiak shooa)
alive and the many
other things we did
to them.
utterly incomprehensible
Then we had a dance.
The attractive little cook
played the accordion
while Thom Campbell,
Barney Freddie and &
and three Eskino
women tore through a
square dance. The room
was hot as a furnace
and 28th dance like a
basketball game but all
immensaly hands gujoyed it
at 12:30 A.M. and made
We bad their all goodbye
the monissey lights be
2:30 AM. The full moon
lighted our cold ride
THE back.
F
dous - and we saw our
Two slightly rolling
last of Hudson stract.
The vights were gorgeous
clear skies doted with
stars while to the North
the moon sat and
made its gleaning path
in to us over the oily
swells - and the shadows
the sails were black
of the rigging against
and word. But this was
the least part! From the
dome overhead Extending
down over half the sky
were the ever shifting
spectral curtains of
the aurora. what a
sight they are up here
green glow spreads and
as their pale deathlike
contracts again in
restless streamers often
with forming red on
the rages. It is a sight
which has no zqual
nor any thing suen to
compare it to, They
radio, kill the officiency of the
September 23- - Friday
and down beyond Musford
out of Hudson strait
the swell was tremendous -
the remnants of a great
storm a week before - all
susceptible hands were
under the weather and
our progress was discouraging-
twenty miles or less aday
beautiful and warm. Many
The first calm day was
pictures were taken on deck
then George and Barney and
of shaved our theree months'
heards. W2 afforded amusement
to all the ship and of
Noted with satisfaction
course look & zutirely different.
moustache - preserved is
how fat of have become. my
quite effective and I
should like to take it
there an liaving to Gattle
home if of can only go
7 hate like hell to go to
parental influence by nadio,
New york which involves
stepping in Used Haven for
clothes and ouce there &
must negister and go to
classes and get tabe with
the fourly only fora a hectic
weekend! Whereas - at the
form & need no svening
clothes rte and can get
a rest before seren seeing
college , which 7 do want
Houly a day 02 Two
at Turnavik again There
yester day we stopped
were several families
there now and many
split cod out drying
on the rocks. H is
place on the Labrador
certainly the most unique
three schoovers sailed out
of the harbor while we
were in - the old woman
standing in the door of has
writched but watching
them go Mscalled
Pierre hoti's story of
Freuch fishing Towns -
"Pscheur d "Island" But These
prople are British
through and through.
We got water and the
kids caught a mess of
kish - some supplies were
left there and we
moved on at noou.
a fair breeys took us
skooting out of the
and now we chug
shore islands by werming
down the open sea into
a head wind waking
but poor headway toward
Belle Isle Strait.
OUT OF TURNAVIK
HO
THE
diag
- -Fish-houses Fish - houses -
Tornavik
1927
quital 112lb lb
In the days of its prime Turnavik boasted
as many as seven hundred inhabitants - in
those times 10,000 kentles of fish was a fair
years catch, 16,000 kentles was good
in 1902,
after two very good years, the same outfit brought w
only 94 kentles - that was the End of prosperity.
September 27 Tussday
From Turnavik down the
going has been very slow
had winds, strong tides,
and a half Ifficient
to Oh Broduce starded progress.
Engine combine admirably
clear day our head
Sunday - a beautiful
wind increased to a gale
the little schooner stood
of sixty viles of so and
on her head and her
Tail alternately with
the sea were with we
sach wave. The gods of
night. On deck it was
and S felt perfectly all
very exciting with the
bowsprit going under
and big oues breaking
our heads alougside
into spray high over
to come over us in a
cold shower,
We were waking but
unnoticable progress and
wasting a lot of our
precious oil
we turned
around and racing
before the wind put
in at Red Bay to
wait it out.
at your the vext morning
Barney and I put out
with the crew to get
water for our Tanks which
harbor lovely,
were griting very low. The
and the little hemlocks
that cover the hills and
shores look like a dense
forest to us. The early
morning of course is
the best time of day
once you get up.
Red Bay is the usual
Labrador fishing village, and
has a Grenfell mission
and stttlement work
room. They make very
and five table covers and
amusing hooked rugs
scarves - two almost blind
rokima girls do the work
on hand looms. The
Miss Pike in charge has
been with Dr. Greufell
for seventeen years and
has spent two years in
Berea College where some
of the habrador workers
are exchanged for the
southerners each year.
out of Red Bay this
worning at four we
made about twenty- five
wiles when the head
winds forced us into
shelter at Forteau, the
next good sized town
along the coast.
We went ashore after
huch. Having spied
some cows Rujus, Heary,
and 7 sought out a
house where we rach
purchased Two glasses of
for resh milk our jurst
since June -and it
was good!
here is much more
The Greufall mission
prosperous looking than
the last. There is no
work done but it is
a nursing 28 cruter. Miss
Farris in charge- - is a
good doctor, so miss Pike
she admitted as much
of Red Bay said; and
herself. a keen red-headed,
sensible looking little
she keeps things as she
woman of perhaps forty
117.
wants them and in to
winter drives her own
dog team about to take
care coast. of cases along the
some of us had a good
walk along the shore this
afternoon and G.P, set
us up to a fine supper
lives here.
cooked by a RG 28 woman who
what a place for fish it
is! There are low frame-
the shore laden with
work stages all along
split cod left There to
Two or three days in fine
dry. They are left out
weather to dry then piled
inside as long again
to press - this process
four times until they are
being repeated three or
ready to be to shipped for
MY BEDROOM
AT
CAPE DORCHESTER
A
THE
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a
El
3
AMADJUAK- -
sale in the city of course
the atmosphere - after
the odor of kish predominates
in a yard 7 found any
playing with a little puppy
hando Extremely fishy.
wind shifted and we
During supper the
came aboard to set out
at once, The winch the sugine
bangs away
chain climbs up three
its Eye hole and
slowly creeps over the
wheel down into the
bunker four men
lines and hooking her
work quickly tightening the
flukes noars and grinds again.
the sugine
a fluke scrapes
noisily up the side plate
dropping side heavily in over the
a afree sudden turns
of a nope and the great
anchor is jast
hurries about the decks weryone
little boys from shore pile
over the side into their
dories
the skipper calls
good luck" to a friend
from shore in a launch
a few hurried orders
ring out the ship
slowly swings around
we move out the stars are
bright over head
the
aurora south flicker's in the
the phosphoresont
water curls away
from the fow in
die out behind
even ripples
the and they
lights of Fortsau blink
at us and one by
one disappear
we
are off the lighthouse
slipping down the strait.
October - 4 - Tuesday
seems now as of ride from
How long ago all that
Montreal sixty wiles an hour
toward Tronts !
From Fortean we were four
the whild went back on us
days getting to Sidney of course
and blew night in our
faces all the way to Cafe
North Those were long
dreadfully boring days everyone
growing wore and more
impationt as the steep,
showed us the same high
rugged shores of N
point or the same bay for
a day at a time
and the last day what a
the little schooner nolled
gale it blew all morning
and for End and jumped
into the air to come down
with a crash as though
there were pavement
beneath her in it was a
fearful pounding and her
Hambers groaned and
squaled inder the wracking;
but she was made for
this and stood it wall.
That noon we passed St.
Pauls Island - a little lovely
heap of green trees and glass
with seattered white buildings
chinging to toits sides - and
then our gale began to
shift 5 as it came around
abeam we raced past Cape
North and covered the
sixty miles to Sidney at
almost ten W2
sailed up the harbor after
dark and dropped
Hwas all.coon
auchor amid more lights
than we had seen all
summer lough G.P. went
ashore ; and will came
back out with the mail d
had fourteen letters! Seven
from mither one Tach from
hee Dad, Toke, Pick Porothy Jane,
and Ruth & read from twelve
until two then turned in for
my last sleep in the good old
walrus bloody bunk with one
blanket wrapped about my
nude limbs I pounded the
Ear not long L but hard!
up at five fora both such
as it was, a shave, and
final packing. ashore at moon
Dorothy greeted us, she was
more charming than Ever,
and hostess to us at a
with home news for Everyone;
dinner of lawb and fresh
vegetables. GiP. was smoothly shaven
that morning and warned
me against Even bursting
unexpectedly upon my
future wife in the middle
of the night should A be
wearing a thick black beard,
The rest has all gone
so fast - that night the
Train out, Truro in the
morning, until afternoon
with the crowd when
they switched off for H.Y.
CG,P, Dorothy Dave, Deric, harry,
Kell, and Dou) & for Montreal
and home! G P. was
fine the last few days &
liked him a lot. He certainly
and in taking it up of
gave we a. great opportunity
have had one of those
Experiences that come
but once. A Mothine can
Ever be quite like it
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"ocrText": "DIARY II AUG.21-OCT.4, 1927\nARCHIVES OF THE OF THE\nNATIONAL THE RG 28 401\nDeary II\naug 21-bel 4, 1927\nAVALISHA\n11\nJ\nA<-1 a\n1-HU-LOO I -\nMANOOK\nNA NOOK\n2:00 d of\nA die reason\nand AND JOIN\nSAND vie 3 wall\nwhose av\nthe Airce is LA\n100 E mar 3\nO 3. STORE a sou\nUSAS\nstale 122\ncannot and 20\nFORM hire. that\nno the STATE\nON\nTo A one 124 AND 1236\nmelo LA\nO\nnow *** W. 120 100 well\nOF health revi Act S.O.\nACN SAND 3. RAC\nWhen JASON\n5-0-2 we D\nand Section\ntie mini\nAugust 21 Sunday\n10 A,M\nTwo months ago today\n& last shaved. That does\ned G.P. of\nnot imply that & now have\nand\na beard but at any nate\nit is great fun to comb\nad\nwhat is there it - is a\n5\nvery soothing sensation and\not\n+ indulge at least Twice\nis\na day with harry's winnor\nal,\nPl\nand could Relied THE as Morrissey. my our\nare\nback at the shore at\nyesterday on 28 we arrived\nat\nCamp Walcott just about an\nhour before it started to\nr\nrain. Wg all thanked God\nas we had packed no\nt\ntent with us and had\nbeen spared through Two\nthreatering days. W2 made\nfourteen wiles the last\nday and Everyoue was\nus\nalmost dead. We had been\nexpecting to come back\nlightened by the weight\nof our food but all ofus\nloaded down with fossils\nmade it suen worse.\nG.P. deserves a lot of\nthat The with his heel\ncredit for the way he inade\njust the borbing water left it in\nscalled before we left.\nhe made the whole way\nvery bad condition but\nHe is not especially strong\nwith very little complaint\nphysically but has great\ncourage and will.\nand packer i his pack was\nLarry is a great walker\nlooked down with lossils\nand be outwalked us all\nanyway. He is fine and an\nideal man for an outdoor\nkip like this\nDave stood the trip as\nwall as could be expected of\na fourteen year old kid. G.P.\nwas fodish to take him and\nswento take him on this\nwhale Goat trip J think and\nThis sure he would never\nhave done it had it not\nbeen for the sabe of Dave's\nDave has never been seen to\nbook and publicity in in general,\ndo anything to help in the\nway of mabing camp or\ncleaning up without his\nto do. We come into our\nfather's telling him just what\nrolls out his bed malses it\ncamping place and be\nvery comfortable and sits\non it until the meal is\nready. after sating and very\noften complaining about the\nfood he talks with the\nhusby or fools around doing\nnothing until he is told to\nturn us. His father spoils\nhim dreadfully, and then\nturus right around and\ngives him held for not\ndoing more. tu spite of\nall this he is at times\na most libeable bid\nand is a good bunter\nand good shot.\nwork Sex we are sitting\nToday thanks to harry's\naround camp resting\n7\nmatead of Tearnes on our\nway again as the Director\nwould like to be doing\n\\\n& wore the heels almost all\nMy feet are sore as hell, and\noff those Palmer packs on\nthis last walk. The chief\nhardship of this month's\ntrip is the dirt. t am really\ngetting so dirty 7 hate\nmyself But there is little\nchance to wash and no\nchance at all to lake off\n7\nbecause 7 have no others\nany clothes and wash them\nalong to put on and would\npull through however; and\nfreeye anyway of hope to\nwill seem!\nwhat a luxury the Morrissey\nGeorge and Barney have just\nstarted out on an all day\nwalk as they have been\nsitting in camp while we\npacked wland. They are both\nreally awfully good fallows.\ndoes not Eat breakfast, some\nBarney very temperamental, often\ntimes stubboru as a mule, but\nhas a very ingenious turn of\nwhen he sets his wind\nwind and can fix anything\non something he makes an\nexcellent job of it. He is a time\nworkman and speaks of\nmaking chess men and fine\nivory things on his jsevel\ninterested in figures and\nlathe at home. Very much\nmental puzzals and calculation\nHe is fine out doors Too though\nnot keen on hunting\nhim alone is very vice\nGrorge when you talk to\nand a genial type He\nand Too loud 4b Sometimes\nalways Talks too much\nwe think just for the sahe of\nhearing the noise. Hz unight\nbe called have in that\nhe asks the most obvious\nquestions and likes to\ndiscuss at length things that\nElse. He craves adventure\nare perfectly plain to Every one\nbud sometimes seems as\nthough he were trying to\nadventure book, He is\nact the hero in a boys\nsplendid physically and strong\nas an OX Has about\nmough outdoor mstimet to\nget to Harlem as G.P. once said.\nHe is easily affected and\ntakes little things much too\nseriously for his own good.\n7P.M\nThey have just now\nreturned from their expedition\nand to their own surprise\nas much as anyone's\nalse they have brought\nin two cariboy One is\na very nice head, and\nthe other Grorge blew to\npieces with my 30-06\nAvalisha is greatly amused\nby the way they have\nbeen skinned ; as wither\neven seen an animal\nBarney nor George has sver\nskinned before, they are\nan odd sight; but the\nskins are beautiful what\nthere is of them Grorge\nhas to never killed anything\nso he is wall satisfied.\nbefore nor hunted atall\nThis is a lovely praceful\nthe sun is about to set\nsuening in Camp Walcott and\nunder the sage of leavy\nclouds. Tomorrow we\nwove on and God\nonly knows when we\nrest again with\nwe see the Morrissey of\nat least Cape Dorclusier\nAugust 23 - Tuesday (NOON)\nn A.M on The rising tide It\nYesterday we set out about\nwas a beautiful cold,\ncalm day and our nun\nheld several events that\nalmost proved exciting.\nVery shortly after we left\nAvalisha signted a white\nwhole HK sounded several\nTimes in front of us and\nhalf an hour before be it\nwe followed hist about\nwouch for the harp con.\ndisappeared never being year\nHis pushed his ivory white\nhead out of water ) then\nturning over would spout\nthis a large OOK sook (learded soal\nand go down. Soon after\nappeared and watched us\nwith interest Dave shot\nand missed him then he\ncame up less Than 30 yds,\naway and stayed there\nlooking us over. Avalisha\nshot him but the harpoon\nfailed and there were no\nsauk in at minute.\nhooks handy and he\nat Evening we reached\nour old camp site on The\nGod forsaken flat rocks,\nas usual harry and &\nslept in The good tent,\nG.P. and Dave in the\nlittle one and the others\non the boat. This worning\nat five o'dock harry and\nthe iwes to Explore it. They\nGrorge started walking up\nare to return tought the\ntaw now on the boat out\nrest of us take it Easy here.\nat auchor relieving\nBaruey who has gove\nashore to Eat. The\nour whale boat Vomices\ncame up over night and\naround like a nutshell.\nAlso it is cold as hell,\nthe thermoweter went\ndown to 35° F. last might\n7 P.M. harry and George\nreturned with the news\nthat there is no river but\njust a long cleft in the\nback inland for several\nrock where the tide goes\nwiles. Larry determined the\nmaximum tide fall here at\ntwenty Two fret, at Camp\nWalcott it was twenty - six feat.\n10: 30 After taking some star\nturn in Q can of stermo\nobservo tious with Larry &\nhas taken the chill off\nour tent and it is very\ncomfortable - swen on solid\nrock.\naugust 26 1 Friday\n7:00 P.M.\nWe set out from the\nago in a good gale that\nCamp at Cleft Rock three days\nrocked our whole boat and\nover End all morning We\nwent through ice several\ntimes but it was never\na good new - slept on\nvery heavy and we nuode\na beach that night Going\non the west day (yesterdzy)\nwe reached our cache at\nCafe Dorchester last night,\nand it was a welcome\nsight a note was there\nawaiting us with news\nthat the Morrissey after\nbeing I'ce off:\naground on the East side\nSpicer Islands and going\nof Fox Basin had been here\nfor Spicer Islands again.\nfive days 938 and started\nWe camp here until\nharry can get the best\ndetermine the latitude\nobservations possible to\npoint For there are to be\nand longitude of this\nsome radical changes in\nthe map of this part\nof the country\nhas hurried things along as\ndriving us all craning the\nThe Director is gradually\nfast as he could all the\nway, and now wants\nto leave here and go on\nthe Morrissey gets here.\nto Cape Dorset before\nthis is as is usually the\nThe only reason for all\nneason for G. P.'s unaccountable\nactions David's book and\npublicity. His great ambition\nseems to be to wake\nDavid Bimmey Putuam\na\nsecond Jasus Christ aluzighty\nin the public eye. He has\nwen gone so far as to\nsuggest that we move on\ntake his observations 20\nat once and that Larry\nmiles south of here harry\nhas the night idea of a\ngood map or no map at\nall, so G.P. is halfless there.\nanybody working for that\nman has my sincere\nsympathy when the Director\nis off at a Tangent as\nis now the case, and\nwhat a man he is\nanyway - every worning\nwakes us if about Six\nor seven and tells us\nhe didu f know it was\nSO\nRG sarly to go ahead and\nsleep some wore. Everymoming\nhe sayo just the same\nthing; every meal time,\njust the same thing,\nswears more often and\nwore disqustingly than any\nthan 1 have Ever heard;\nalways blames some one\nElse for Every thing that\nmost tiresome man in the\ngoes wrong and is the\nworld to be with for as\nlong as this has been\nThe same pet Expressions\nagain and again than\nwhich he secus to have\nno other vocabulary drive\nus all as crayy as bats.\n\"Everything is going to be all\nnight is his favorite -and\nmost annoying\naugust 27- Saturday 8:00P.M.\nOrsterday of & took a long walk\nalone from three in the\nafternoon until nine at\nnight It was great exercise\nand a usvel sensation to\nbe alone for so long\nIt clouded over and the\n1 couldn't it see more than\nfog rolled in so heavy that\nfifty yards for a long hime\nsome cairus however, f did\nBy the use of my compass and\nnot get lost as of started\nback it cleared up and &\nsaw one of the most unusual\nsunsets of have ever seen.\nOlo the sun, a great dull\nred globe among the dark\nclouds, approached the horizon\nthe mays of refraction drew\ntike a fafauese lautern of\nit out so it looked just\nstriped orange and red.\nafter this many other changes\nin its shake took place; and\nit set finally looking like\na shapeless pink cloud,\nToday has been bitter cold\nbrought the waves piting\nand clear. a gale has\nup on our rocks and\nbeach; and has brought\nthe ice pack from the\nboriyon and left it stranded\non our shore as the\ntide went out, It is a rarely\nbeautiful sight with the great.\ngrounded cabes any where\nup to twenty frat in height\nlooking like glistening white\nmonsters in fobulous shapes\nand poses. all this is\npiled high around our\nwhole boat which has been\ndrawn as high as possible\non the rocky beach.\nWe have all froyen most\nall day and now of shall\nturn in to a bed f have\nconstructed of rocks and\nusess - Esking fashion The\nTent was so noise in the\nwind + couldn't sleed\nlast night. 7 am wall\nsheltered from the wind\nand trust two of the new\ncarebou skins over my\nwe a little bit warm. &\nsleeping bag will keep\nhave only the bed itself no\nblaukets onthis trep, but\nhave been fairly warm\nwost of the time. & still\nstrip to my underwear too.\nAugust 28 - Sunday NOON\nthe best in a long time-\nMy sleep last might was\nwarm and comportable it\nwas a real change from\nthe last few wight and\ngreat to be out in the\nopen too.\nwindy with the ice in\nIt is still very cold and\nalong the shore. We all\npray it will stay there\nand hold us in until\nthe Marrissiy returns -that is\nall Except the inhumanly\nselfish Director, of whom\nthe less said at this\npoint the better Weare\nplanning all sorts of\nthings to keep to us here as long\nas possible ; And if the\nthe whale boat trip continues\nMorrissey does come and\nto Cape Dorset anyway\nDave will not be along\nthough neither he nor G.P.\nmay be aware of that\nfact at present. That is\none thing the rest of us\nare agreed upon.\nAugust 50 a Tuzsday 8P.M.\nThis is slowly but surely\nbecoming one of the coldest\nplaces If have wer been all\nday Today there has been new\nice on all the little\nfresh puddles and the ears\nreadily and nose freeye very\nRam for one night drove\nwe back into the tent with\nthere was f colder last might\nharry and George and wen\nthan f have yet been. Weare,\nof course, all under dothed and\nunder blauketed for weather of\nthis sort.\nThe situation has changed\nsomewhat and now Even\nG.P. seams looking forward\nto the arrival of the\nMorrissey P -which he seems\nsure will be toworrow\nThe wind is still from\nthe N.W and very stroug\nto our harbor.\nso the ice sticks firmly\nH is with great pleasure\nthat + can report a\nchange in Dave's manner,\n++ seems that George\nspoke to to hin about the\nand it Took immediate\nway he was acting\neffect for the better. HE\n5 really an awf alley\ngood kid and seluis to\nMother when he is not\nqualities of his charming\nlave wany of the attractive\nacting like G.P. which 7\nhope it will be unnatural\nfor him to do Hz and\nAvalisha the other day set\nabout fixing up the\ncooking place and with\nthe use of two extra\nsails fixed up a\ncomfortable thettery where\nwe rat out of the\nwind and 20\nd have really started to\nof smoked several cigarettes\ngo to hell wow yasterday\na pipe. + left the good\nand today have started\nthe Morrissey so am\none Dad gave we on\nusing one that G R. has\nalong for trading The\ncombination of a new\nDike and Prince Albert\ntobacco is lousey but 7\nam Taking it very easy\nat the start awyway.\nSeptember 1 - Thursday\n7.PM\nwhat rotten weather to\nstart the month with! It\nhas rained all day and\nthe wind shifted last\nnight to to to the S.E. so\nit blows in m, or at, our\ntent door as harry and\n& rotated it the other day\nkeep blast. out the cold Morth\nwalked all day on what\nyrsterday harry and &\nwas caribon supposed bunt tabe We had a\na very good walk but\nall the game we saw\nconsisted of your Harmigan\nwhich waited while &\nthrew several rocksand\nwe each fired at Them,\nof tail frathers from one of\nWy 30-06 matted a bunch\nthem; we spared their lives.\nThe coast of this bay is\nlived with the 25 kind tent\nrings of RG all UNITED ages j and\nstrewn with SERVIS boues of walrus,\nbear, and caribon This is\nwidentty a favorite hunting\nthe bones indicate that\nground for them Many of\nthey have been here quite\nrecently - parhaps Tarlier\nthis summer.\nThe temperature has\nstill stayed low although\ntoday it has been a\nbit warmer 1 about 50° -\nprobably due to to the shift\nthat Work Twains description\nin wind. Larry suggests\nof New England applies\ntsland \"There is no\nequally well to Baffin\nclimate there just weather\"\nand most of that has\nbeen bad here,\nThe Morrisgay has been\nexpected today as Captain\nBob said not later\nthan the first. Wz all hope\nshe gets here tomorrow\nschoouer will seem now !\nwhat a luxury the little\nSeptember 3- - saturday 3. 3.PM\nafter litting us sleep until\nnoon for the last several\ndays , G,P, called us out\nthe sun was out for the\nat 6 this worning But\njuist time in a week and\nit was such a lovely\nmorning no one cared. this\nin almost a week.\nhas been the first clear day\nYesterday was miserable\nwith cold fog and the\nfeature of the day was\nwhen the Director brought\nCoffee and Discuits to to harry\nand me in bed at 10AM\nthe is a very strange man!\nhere, There has been no\nThis is our last day\nsign yet of the Morrissey,\nTomorrow in the whale\nbut we set out early\nboat for Cape Dirset -if\nshe does not show up\nTonight 1 We have taken\nbeach and have cleared\nEvery thing down to ther\naway Tous of ice so the\nthe vest tide To further\ncan go out at\ncommemorate this our\nlast day at Capo Darchestra\nCo, Peregrine PT.) + had as\nshampoo of hair and beard,\nand now feel comparatively\nclean 3 though I shall not\nfor as bath - how much\nover look the first opportunity\nthat word means now\nafter forun weeks in the\nsame clothes without wen\nTaking some of them off !\nSaptember 4- - Sunday 5P.M.\nnot half an hour after\nMorrissey polied her rhastboack\nmy writing yesterday the\nup over the worthern\nhorizon - first called to\nour attention by Dave\nshouting about two\nmiles away on the frint.\nall tents came down at\nouce we had a hot supper\nof our last cocoa and fried\nduckling and snife i and backed\nto the beach. She came into\neverything away and down\nthe bay about four hours\nlater and auchored in\nsilhouette against a more\nstunning sunset Than Ever,\nThe launch came in to\nus and Taking one load\nof our beds Etc. aboord\nwe went out for the night.\nIt was good to see\neveryone again and the\nadvancement of all beards\nis astonishing in a wouth\nleads the field with his\nof absence farry & & think,\nbushy rabbi's mask - although\nWill is a close second\nlooking like a true hobse.\nKelly has a thick little\nbrush that seems to\nweigh down his jaw he\nlooks like a gnome driawn\nw a book of fairy stories.\nBob Prary has theory other\nworthy of mention i parted\nin the widdle it is a\nthick red mat webing lim\na traly norse type which\nclosely watches his nature.\nHe is quite at home on the\nsea and enjoys it more\nthan anything think\nThis morning when\nthe kog lifted we set\nout for Cape Dorset The\nsupplies having come\nwhale boat and remaining\nabourd Earlier\nSeptember - -11 Sunday\nDofset where Doc ,Don,\nTwo days Took us to\nand Freddie were anxiously\nawaiting us. The day was\nTaken up in getting their\nthings aboard while George\nand & worked at magnetic\nobservations to such an\nextent we found no time to\nget any Tusks which were\nplentiful at this post only\nWe then moved ou post\nhasts as G.P. is always\nTwo days later we woved\non fire about getting going.\non up Chorkbak that\nwhich is between Dorset\nand Awadjuak , and a\nfavorite hunting ground\nobject of our visit here\nof the Eskinos The\nbeing to investicate and\ndetermine the hitherts\ndoubtful stent of the\ninkt. sailed\nWe woved about\nthirty tive or forty wiles\nup the wide and quite\nlovely fiord between\nsteep sugged hills seti\ntwo or three miles apart.\nThe country seems quite\nmountainous after our\nsternal platness of the\nwest coast.\nThe Morrissey was at\nsheltered little cove\nancleor in a very\nwhile the whale boat\nset out ou another\ntrip of exploration. twas\ngiven the option of going\nor not ao & wished.\ntstayed here for the\nsake of the change.\nThe party this time\nwas G.P. harry Kell,\nBarney Henry, Deric,\nand Kavaou,\nwoved on the high\nThe Worrissey was\ntide and set steru\nin to shore subjecting\nher propellor to repairs\nwhen the waters should\nrecede about noon she\ntouched first and then\nchass began as the\ntide went out she\nsettled to starboard and\nfor a time we thought\nshe would never stop.\nComing frinally to rest\nwith her stern high\nand dry and her\nthe horizontal she was\ndecks party degrees from\nthe picture of distress.\nThe water from the\nlarge parcentage of sugine\nbilge which contains a\noil moved forward,\nand being so far heeled\nover, came up into the\nfockers and the lower\nbunks. Everything in the\nlockers was soaked and\nthe quattresses fdoated in\nthe lover bunks, the\nwaters finally came to\na stop just at the\nFour of us bailed for\nlower sage of my bank.\nabout two hours and\nalmost kept up with\nthe Turush of filthy\nwater a bucket lowered\nthrough RG whe port batch\ndropped 28 straight s to the\nstarboard lockers and\nthe resulting affect\ninside made the brain\ndigzy. Prople standing\nthe table and beuch\nat NO° angles from\ncorvers the port clothes\nsticking out from the\nwaflo and the light\ncords hanging all out\nof reason combined to\nproduce the affect of the\noriginal \"topsy turvy house\".\nand now - the whole\nboat party back (with no\noutstanding success) 8 and\nall the lower bunk\ncobin is a wess\navailable position\nproperties driging in wery\nthe director promises\nbeyond description But\ncleanliness and order\nToworrow\nto was very pleasant\nfew here in and a relief\noutoard with only a\nfrom the strained\natmosphere that pervades\nthe ood ship when\nG.P. is aboard Captain\nBob is certainly a\nfive old boy HE\nknows wore speople\nof note than you could\never think of and has\na fascinating charm in\ntelling wen the Imallest\nincidents His Experience\nin the Arctic is greater,\n& suppose than that of\nthis adventures on the\nany white was alive,\nU.S. R.C, \"Bear\" on the\n\"Carlok\" with Stefansson,\nthe shipwracked party at\nDraugle Island his\nexperiences with Prary\nand many others are\nfiction writer ever dreamed\nwore thrilling than any\nand he tells of them\nall so naturally and\nwith such a good\nappreciation of the\nnight points. there is\nno boast or braa in\nhis wanner but\nit is altogether simple\nand this very implicity\nwakes it all wore real\nthan Ever to to his listeners.\nPeter and 7 took two\ntrips in the launch up\nthe yiord The just day\ngot us six ducks, the\nsecond three. They are\nwilder here than any\nwe have seem The\nold ones fly and the\nwhen you see them and\nyoung dive almost\nbreath there are about\nwhen they come up to\nTwo seconds to vail\nthem in The second\nday we saw wany s szal,\nwhich stuck ef\npretty gray heads\nagain and again t\nafter shots at six of\nscrutinjye our craft.\nthem d finally hit one\nbut our ove lung rugine\nwas too slow and\nas we came into the\npool of blood I could\njust see him about\nten feet below the surface\nsliding down backwards\nlike a poor dawned soul\nto hell. It was less than\nthirty seconds after he\nmust be right on top\nhad been hist you\nSeal steaks are delicious\nof them or they are gove.\nfood. & remember the first\nseal of ate in a pie -\nand f dislibed it, But\nfried steaks swothered in\nonions are the best\nfood we have aboard.\nthe weat is very dark\nand the greasy steak\nlooks block as tar but\nit is tender and a\nreal delicacy Coptain Bol\ncalls it the fruit of the\narctic. the says the\nBritish explorers always\nnefuse to sat it but\nprefer their salt horse\njustead i thus it is always\nBritish Expeditions that\nare troubled with\nscurery which is solly\nso uneccess\nand 7 went out in\nToday harry and Peter\nthe launch - stay ins\nfor lunch. w 9 had\nlots of glooting at seal\nand duck, and brought\nback one luck. It\nrained hard and was\nfreeying coldin the worth\nwind as we came\nback - oilskins are\nthe only safe dothes\nto wear here.\nS'Epteenbes 16 Friday\nOn a beautiful clear\nafternoon we strawed out\nof Chorkbak. The water\nwas of swerald; 3 and\nfrom the mosthead seemed\npatterned by the tide nips\ninto immumerable rosettes\nand interwoven lines\nwhich shifted here and\nThere without sud.\nThe next day about\nyour pill we dropped\nanchor in the harbor\noff amadjuak where the\nhusky camp had been.\nOur only greeting was\nthe grudsome howl of\na big white busky dog\nlaft alone on the\nisland He ran up and\ndown the shore crying\nat us in a pitiful way\nWe paid little attention to\nhim - Avalisha and\nKavaou intimated he was\nleft there because he was\nmad,\nThe whale Goat went in\nto the post Leaving at\nfive we got in after\nsunset, and the bay,\ncalm as a wirror\nreflected the rugged black\nhills on a surface of\nburnished gold at the\nsame time the stars were\nbrilliant in the deep blue\nsky overhead.\nat the post Work had\nbeen replaced by one\nThom - a hard blue-syed\nthirty He has been much\nyoung was of about\nknows his business. and\namong the Eskimos and\nhow he had cleaned\nup the house! The erstwhile\npig -pen was now quite\nlivable and the tood\nso much be ther. Thom\nbakes good bread, and\nteaching to cook - she is\nhas a new girl he is\na little semi Eskuno\na touch of the white\nwith a nice yellow skin,\nrace in her features, fine\ndark brown hair in\nTwo braids a foot below\nher waist, and a lovedy\nfigure - unusual among\nnature women. They all\nget sway backs and\nwalk with their legs far\napart - partly from\ntheir backs.\ncarrying children on\nAvalisha's family was\nthe spare house and\ninstalled in a room of\nhe returned in the splendor\nof a king. Seated on the\nPloor - his new victorola\nplaying and handing\nout hard caudies to the\n0 ther huskies from his\ntwenty five pound tab he\nwas the every and admination\nof his fellows. They\nlistened in somewhat\ngathered around and\ngenuine wonder at his\nExpressionless but yet\nTales of the distant lands\nhe had seen - the prairies\nof the blue geese - the\nstrange ways of the\nwhite men who killed\npolar bean with revolvers,\nand wen caught them\nand put them in their\nlarge boat Coomiak shooa)\nalive and the many\nother things we did\nto them.\nutterly incomprehensible\nThen we had a dance.\nThe attractive little cook\nplayed the accordion\nwhile Thom Campbell,\nBarney Freddie and &\nand three Eskino\nwomen tore through a\nsquare dance. The room\nwas hot as a furnace\nand 28th dance like a\nbasketball game but all\nimmensaly hands gujoyed it\nat 12:30 A.M. and made\nWe bad their all goodbye\nthe monissey lights be\n2:30 AM. The full moon\nlighted our cold ride\nTHE back.\nF\ndous - and we saw our\nTwo slightly rolling\nlast of Hudson stract.\nThe vights were gorgeous\nclear skies doted with\nstars while to the North\nthe moon sat and\nmade its gleaning path\nin to us over the oily\nswells - and the shadows\nthe sails were black\nof the rigging against\nand word. But this was\nthe least part! From the\ndome overhead Extending\ndown over half the sky\nwere the ever shifting\nspectral curtains of\nthe aurora. what a\nsight they are up here\ngreen glow spreads and\nas their pale deathlike\ncontracts again in\nrestless streamers often\nwith forming red on\nthe rages. It is a sight\nwhich has no zqual\nnor any thing suen to\ncompare it to, They\nradio, kill the officiency of the\nSeptember 23- - Friday\nand down beyond Musford\nout of Hudson strait\nthe swell was tremendous -\nthe remnants of a great\nstorm a week before - all\nsusceptible hands were\nunder the weather and\nour progress was discouraging-\ntwenty miles or less aday\nbeautiful and warm. Many\nThe first calm day was\npictures were taken on deck\nthen George and Barney and\nof shaved our theree months'\nheards. W2 afforded amusement\nto all the ship and of\nNoted with satisfaction\ncourse look & zutirely different.\nmoustache - preserved is\nhow fat of have become. my\nquite effective and I\nshould like to take it\nthere an liaving to Gattle\nhome if of can only go\n7 hate like hell to go to\nparental influence by nadio,\nNew york which involves\nstepping in Used Haven for\nclothes and ouce there &\nmust negister and go to\nclasses and get tabe with\nthe fourly only fora a hectic\nweekend! Whereas - at the\nform & need no svening\nclothes rte and can get\na rest before seren seeing\ncollege , which 7 do want\nHouly a day 02 Two\nat Turnavik again There\nyester day we stopped\nwere several families\nthere now and many\nsplit cod out drying\non the rocks. H is\nplace on the Labrador\ncertainly the most unique\nthree schoovers sailed out\nof the harbor while we\nwere in - the old woman\nstanding in the door of has\nwritched but watching\nthem go Mscalled\nPierre hoti's story of\nFreuch fishing Towns -\n\"Pscheur d \"Island\" But These\nprople are British\nthrough and through.\nWe got water and the\nkids caught a mess of\nkish - some supplies were\nleft there and we\nmoved on at noou.\na fair breeys took us\nskooting out of the\nand now we chug\nshore islands by werming\ndown the open sea into\na head wind waking\nbut poor headway toward\nBelle Isle Strait.\nOUT OF TURNAVIK\nHO\nTHE\ndiag\n- -Fish-houses Fish - houses -\nTornavik\n1927\nquital 112lb lb\nIn the days of its prime Turnavik boasted\nas many as seven hundred inhabitants - in\nthose times 10,000 kentles of fish was a fair\nyears catch, 16,000 kentles was good\nin 1902,\nafter two very good years, the same outfit brought w\nonly 94 kentles - that was the End of prosperity.\nSeptember 27 Tussday\nFrom Turnavik down the\ngoing has been very slow\nhad winds, strong tides,\nand a half Ifficient\nto Oh Broduce starded progress.\nEngine combine admirably\nclear day our head\nSunday - a beautiful\nwind increased to a gale\nthe little schooner stood\nof sixty viles of so and\non her head and her\nTail alternately with\nthe sea were with we\nsach wave. The gods of\nnight. On deck it was\nand S felt perfectly all\nvery exciting with the\nbowsprit going under\nand big oues breaking\nour heads alougside\ninto spray high over\nto come over us in a\ncold shower,\nWe were waking but\nunnoticable progress and\nwasting a lot of our\nprecious oil\nwe turned\naround and racing\nbefore the wind put\nin at Red Bay to\nwait it out.\nat your the vext morning\nBarney and I put out\nwith the crew to get\nwater for our Tanks which\nharbor lovely,\nwere griting very low. The\nand the little hemlocks\nthat cover the hills and\nshores look like a dense\nforest to us. The early\nmorning of course is\nthe best time of day\nonce you get up.\nRed Bay is the usual\nLabrador fishing village, and\nhas a Grenfell mission\nand stttlement work\nroom. They make very\nand five table covers and\namusing hooked rugs\nscarves - two almost blind\nrokima girls do the work\non hand looms. The\nMiss Pike in charge has\nbeen with Dr. Greufell\nfor seventeen years and\nhas spent two years in\nBerea College where some\nof the habrador workers\nare exchanged for the\nsoutherners each year.\nout of Red Bay this\nworning at four we\nmade about twenty- five\nwiles when the head\nwinds forced us into\nshelter at Forteau, the\nnext good sized town\nalong the coast.\nWe went ashore after\nhuch. Having spied\nsome cows Rujus, Heary,\nand 7 sought out a\nhouse where we rach\npurchased Two glasses of\nfor resh milk our jurst\nsince June -and it\nwas good!\nhere is much more\nThe Greufall mission\nprosperous looking than\nthe last. There is no\nwork done but it is\na nursing 28 cruter. Miss\nFarris in charge- - is a\ngood doctor, so miss Pike\nshe admitted as much\nof Red Bay said; and\nherself. a keen red-headed,\nsensible looking little\nshe keeps things as she\nwoman of perhaps forty\n117.\nwants them and in to\nwinter drives her own\ndog team about to take\ncare coast. of cases along the\nsome of us had a good\nwalk along the shore this\nafternoon and G.P, set\nus up to a fine supper\nlives here.\ncooked by a RG 28 woman who\nwhat a place for fish it\nis! There are low frame-\nthe shore laden with\nwork stages all along\nsplit cod left There to\nTwo or three days in fine\ndry. They are left out\nweather to dry then piled\ninside as long again\nto press - this process\nfour times until they are\nbeing repeated three or\nready to be to shipped for\nMY BEDROOM\nAT\nCAPE DORCHESTER\nA\nTHE\n- CLEFT ROCK CAMP\na\nEl\n3\nAMADJUAK- -\nsale in the city of course\nthe atmosphere - after\nthe odor of kish predominates\nin a yard 7 found any\nplaying with a little puppy\nhando Extremely fishy.\nwind shifted and we\nDuring supper the\ncame aboard to set out\nat once, The winch the sugine\nbangs away\nchain climbs up three\nits Eye hole and\nslowly creeps over the\nwheel down into the\nbunker four men\nlines and hooking her\nwork quickly tightening the\nflukes noars and grinds again.\nthe sugine\na fluke scrapes\nnoisily up the side plate\ndropping side heavily in over the\na afree sudden turns\nof a nope and the great\nanchor is jast\nhurries about the decks weryone\nlittle boys from shore pile\nover the side into their\ndories\nthe skipper calls\ngood luck\" to a friend\nfrom shore in a launch\na few hurried orders\nring out the ship\nslowly swings around\nwe move out the stars are\nbright over head\nthe\naurora south flicker's in the\nthe phosphoresont\nwater curls away\nfrom the fow in\ndie out behind\neven ripples\nthe and they\nlights of Fortsau blink\nat us and one by\none disappear\nwe\nare off the lighthouse\nslipping down the strait.\nOctober - 4 - Tuesday\nseems now as of ride from\nHow long ago all that\nMontreal sixty wiles an hour\ntoward Tronts !\nFrom Fortean we were four\nthe whild went back on us\ndays getting to Sidney of course\nand blew night in our\nfaces all the way to Cafe\nNorth Those were long\ndreadfully boring days everyone\ngrowing wore and more\nimpationt as the steep,\nshowed us the same high\nrugged shores of N\npoint or the same bay for\na day at a time\nand the last day what a\nthe little schooner nolled\ngale it blew all morning\nand for End and jumped\ninto the air to come down\nwith a crash as though\nthere were pavement\nbeneath her in it was a\nfearful pounding and her\nHambers groaned and\nsqualed inder the wracking;\nbut she was made for\nthis and stood it wall.\nThat noon we passed St.\nPauls Island - a little lovely\nheap of green trees and glass\nwith seattered white buildings\nchinging to toits sides - and\nthen our gale began to\nshift 5 as it came around\nabeam we raced past Cape\nNorth and covered the\nsixty miles to Sidney at\nalmost ten W2\nsailed up the harbor after\ndark and dropped\nHwas all.coon\nauchor amid more lights\nthan we had seen all\nsummer lough G.P. went\nashore ; and will came\nback out with the mail d\nhad fourteen letters! Seven\nfrom mither one Tach from\nhee Dad, Toke, Pick Porothy Jane,\nand Ruth & read from twelve\nuntil two then turned in for\nmy last sleep in the good old\nwalrus bloody bunk with one\nblanket wrapped about my\nnude limbs I pounded the\nEar not long L but hard!\nup at five fora both such\nas it was, a shave, and\nfinal packing. ashore at moon\nDorothy greeted us, she was\nmore charming than Ever,\nand hostess to us at a\nwith home news for Everyone;\ndinner of lawb and fresh\nvegetables. GiP. was smoothly shaven\nthat morning and warned\nme against Even bursting\nunexpectedly upon my\nfuture wife in the middle\nof the night should A be\nwearing a thick black beard,\nThe rest has all gone\nso fast - that night the\nTrain out, Truro in the\nmorning, until afternoon\nwith the crowd when\nthey switched off for H.Y.\nCG,P, Dorothy Dave, Deric, harry,\nKell, and Dou) & for Montreal\nand home! G P. was\nfine the last few days &\nliked him a lot. He certainly\nand in taking it up of\ngave we a. great opportunity\nhave had one of those\nExperiences that come\nbut once. A Mothine can\nEver be quite like it\nFrederick A. Limitulles\nam. Ann. Aat History\n77st Central Park West\nnew york\nPeter Heinbecker\nSchool of Medicine\nfor humanity\nIt Mo.\nmouroe Barnard\n700 Fort Washing ton ave,\nBilling M\nNew York 2211 at\nJuniua B Bird\nRye, n.y.\nHallace R.Hawkins\na da Rufus\nDod only knows\nRobert E. Peary\nEagle Island\nPorttand We\nEd manley\n328 Fourthet\nmarietta Ohio\nWill B away\nBuqu used.\nW&T 4981\n1.25\nSail into Siduey - weren\ndark (rideing said\nwheel"
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