Newfoundland 
horses are available for packing purposes, or 
where, as in Africa, porters can be obtained, 
also where money is no object, then you can 
embroider the above to any extent—even to 
champagne! I consider, however, that the 
more primitive I am and the more I do for 
myself, the greater the enjoyment obtained. 
I have often packed forty pounds of a load in 
Alaska, day after day, cordially detesting the 
job whilst at it, because I could not see my guide 
and Indians packing along with half as much 
more on their backs without doing my share. 
I used to apologize for the lightness of my load 
as compared to theirs by saying that they were 
used to it, and I was not. 
Having bought the necessary outfit, as seemed 
good to Pat, I booked two passages by the small 
coasting steamer Plover to La Poile, a small 
fishing hamlet on the west coast. The voyage 
took two days, as we had to call at several small 
stations en route. 
Arrived at La Poile, I was offered hospitality 
by the manager of a lobster factory, who put me 
up during my stay. He also lent me a boat to 
take my outfit up to the head of the bay—a 
distance of twelve miles—and recommended me 
to take a Micmac Indian, by name Johnny 
Peters; also a white man, to cook for us and look 
after the camp. These preparations took the 
whole of the next day, as, after engaging these 
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