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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