Lake Umbagog
1907
August 8
death he was dragging a load of wood over the snow
when the sled got beyond control on a steep slope and ran
against him driving a splinter into his remaining eye and
at once destroying it. This happened on Metalluc Island when
a white hunter found him blind and starving a few days
later and at his request took him to his people in Canada.
After staying with them awhile he started back in company
with another white man who deserted him in the woods
at the lower Megalloway. Here he was again discovered
nearly dead with starvation. This time he was taken to
the poor house at Andover, Maine where he died a
few months later - in the year 1840, Mr. West thinks
His squaw, Moll, was buried some time before this near the
camp in the narrows of Richardson Lake. The water is
now ten feet deep over the spot but before it was raised
by the building of Middle Dam the grave was opened
a Moll's skeleton removed to Andover where it is said
to be still preserved. All this I give on Mr. West's
authority and in nearly his own words as I noted them
at the time. It may be well to compare his statements
with those included in the details on Metalluc which
appeared in "Maine Woods", about February or March, 1907,
if I remember rightly. I think I kept it but it is
not by me as I write this.
Jonathan P. West's account of Metalluc