A Woman's Way Through Unknown Labrador An Account Of The Exploration Of The Nascaupee And George Rivers By Mrs. Leonidas Hubbard, Junior
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We Counted On All These To Help Us Out In Our Effort To
Reach The Head Of Grand Lake Where We Hoped To Find Skipper Tom
Blake's Trapping Camp And Cache.
On Thursday as stated, I busted.
Friday and Saturday it was the same.
I saw it was probably useless
for me to try to go farther with the boys, so we counselled last
night, and decided they should take merely half a blanket each,
socks, etc., some tea, tea pail, cups, and the pistols, and go on.
They will try to reach the flour to-morrow. Then Wallace will
bring a little and come back to me. George will go on to the milk
and lard and to Skipper Blake if he can, and send or lead help to
us. I want to say here that they are two of the very best,
bravest, and grandest men I ever knew, and if I die it will not be
because they did not put forth their best efforts. Our past two
days have been trying ones. I have not written my diary because so
very weak. Day before yesterday we caught sight of a caribou, but
it was on our lee, and, winding us, got away before a shot could be
fired.
Yesterday at an old camp, we found the end we had cut from a flour
bag. It had a bit of flour sticking to it. We boiled it with our
old caribou bones and it thickened the broth a little.
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