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o the ordinary untrained person I believe 

 there are few things so terrifying as being 

 lost in the woods. Especially does this apply 

 to our section of the Province where there 

 is only one direction that can lead to safety. In 

 other parts of the country, supposing a person 

 does become lost, there is a chance that even if he 

 should take a wrong direction, he may still reach 

 some lumber camp, road, or railway track, or 

 settlement. On the North Shore, on the other 

 hand, there is but the one hope of safety, namely, 

 the coast line. All other directions lead into the 

 wilderness, where hundreds of miles may be tra- 

 versed without a single sign of a human being. 

 The best woodsman and trapper, and even the 

 Indians who are born and brought up in the 

 woods, will occasionally lose themselves for a time, 

 but owing to their training they never experience 

 any of the terrors that will assail the tenderfoot 

 under similar circumstances. The former will 

 realize that they are astray, and if it should be 

 due to a snowstorm or to darkness, they will stop 

 and camp or make a fire and have something to 

 eat, will act sensibly, in fact, and when the wea- 

 ther clears up, find the way all right. 



I have had this experience myself. When it 



