I need hardly say that the telegraph office was soon found, and messages despatched to anxious friends, who, having heard nothing from us for some months, had begun to entertain grave fears for our safety. Thirteen hundred miles more of travel by rail and we were home again, after an absence of just eight months.
CREE HUNTER’S PRIZE.
FOOTNOTES
[1] For further particulars regarding this most interesting locality, see the report of Mr. McConnell, published in 1893 by the Geological Survey of Canada.
[2] For a full description of geological features, etc., see J. B. Tyrrell’s Report for 1893-94, Geological Survey.
[3] My brother in revisiting the Barren Lands during the summer of 1894 was hailed by the natives many miles south of the scene of this incident as the “Kudloonah Peayouk” (good white man) who had regard for the goods of an Eskimo, and left on his “kometic” a piece of tobacco.
[4] For full geological and mineralogical details regarding this district, see J. B. Tyrrell’s report for 1893, published by the Geological Survey Department of Canada.
[5] For the benefit of anyone who may be not aware of the fact, I will explain that there are various kinds of lameness commonly produced by the prolonged use of snowshoes. In thus travelling, certain leg muscles which are only accustomed to perform light service are brought into vigorous use, and are very liable to become strained and cause much discomfort and suffering.