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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When we left Mr. Hubbard an east and raw wind was blowing, and soon
rain began, and heavy rain all way, and were soaked to the skin,
and made poor time. We followed the river as it ran out into Grand
Lake. The least thing we tripped on we would fall, and it would be
some time before we could get up. Or we went too near a tree, that
a branch would catch on us, would pull us down. At dark we stopped
for the night. The trees were very small, and we couldn't get any
shelter at all, and hard to get wood with no axe. We pulled
together some half rotten lain trees. Our fire wouldn't burn
hardly, and couldn't dry our things, and had to sit up all night
with wet clothes on, near our fire, or rather near our smoke, as
the wood being too rotten that it wouldn't burn. About two o'clock
the wind turned westward, the rain ceased, but it began to snow
very hard. The night was long and my mind on Hubbard all the time
could not forget him.
In the morning, Monday, Oct. 19th, the snow nearly up to our knees.
We started early. Our eyes were quite dim with the smoke and
everything looked blue. It troubled us all day. Before noon I
tracked up a partridge. Oh, how I wished to get him! I came to
the place where he had flown away and hunted for him quite a while.
At last he flew off.
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