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Every Bell Telephone` is ` a Long Distance Station This Way to While enjoying. the Pacific breezes in 1904 Mr. Moberly received a tele- 2` gram from the chief -government en- J gineer in Ottawa asking if he would i make an exploration north of Lake < Abitibi for the Transcontinental line. He proceeded to Ottawa and received instructions. He was told "his sup- plies would be at the south end of Lake Temiskaming. His staff and men, between twenty and thirty, would follow, he was_ informed. He reached his objective where all he could find were two cases of dried apples and no men. It would indeed be a clever turn`. in legerdermain to swell those dried apples into supplies for his men when they did arrive- leven with a lake of water athand. Starts AA\bi.t-ibi J ourhey The men came along, but still no supplies. While waiting for the lat- ter the engineer set his men to work building pointers, flat-bottom boats, knowing they would be needed. \ In a week the supplies arrived and, `ev- er and .a start made for the north end of the lake to` North Temiska- Aming, which lies across from New Liskeard at the mouth of the Des Quinz `ri'ver--' better known to the guides` as the Fifteen river, and so called because` of its fifteen rapids and portages over its fifteen miles from Lake Temiskaming. A Hurry-up Adventures- There was a `road over the distance, however, but at that time it was probably the most villainous road imaginable- fraught with holes, boulders, trees and all, sorts of ob- stacles. At any rate Mr. Moberly .arranged with` the Klock Lumber company to have his supplies moved over, this road by team to Klock s `depot on Lac d-e Quinz. Every- thing was hurried across _that port- age `as it was turning cold and likely to freeze up any time. The stores were loa_ded on an Alligator, a small flat-bottomed sidegwheel steam- er. By the way, these steamers are * kedged across portages by a Windlass and their own power. Even minutes were precious; ice was forming. The first portage was from the Quinz into Bearriere lake. At this place they left the main Ottawa and point- ed northward. ` _.-.... _ '___-.L_._.. J.L..-. gal erything was hustled on to the steam- ~ lake. ' miles away. loaded on pointers and towed. Hurrying across aportage they got another Alligator on Bearrierc It was freezing hard. but they thought it would break the ice. The engineer was anxious to speed up to the height of land. It was found necessary to send men across the lake for the Alligator. The `water was now frozen and the men had to pick their way carefully where the ice would carry them. They crossed, got up steam and improvised an ice- breaker with poles to prevent dam- age to the thin-hulled craft. The next midnight the waiting party could hear the Alligator crashing with great noise through the ice Another hurry-up load- ing: but some of the stuff had to be The channel the steamer had made had already frozen andit wasn t long before the ice had cut through the towed canoes and pointers and they sank to make a pork feast for the fishes. - vv 1 vi 1 -l\,,_ ,,_, .1 L lDIlCDo Head Packer Drowned When they landed, six inches of ' snow had fallen. From the landing place they- had to pack their outfit --except the canoes-'to Lake Abit- .ibi,- following thevchain of lakes to the height of land and down over another chain of lakes and the upper a part of Abitibi river to Lake Abitibi. The journey was then. across Lake Abitibi and some miles up Okeiko-. dosik river, (rotten pine stump, in Cree Indian). This journey, Mr. Moberly afterwardsrelated, was one of the most arduous, fatiguing and difficult he ever experienced. Trails had to be found, cut or beaten about lakes, rivers and portages. It was a year of very heavy snow. 1 .1 n ;,_ ,__ L1A_ Jvvuu V- ..A-`, -..-_._._, ._.__.. There was a depth of water on the iceunder heavy snow which was too deep to freeze, and the party had no snowshoes. The temperature was 45 to 5\0 below zero. Cutting through ____;____ ___L_..`L 'l--...L LL- ....L .....4. r}e Men Abound in Romance of Canada s 7 rails DU UU UCIUVV, acxvu uuuun-:5 ullnvusal `to water which kept the feet wet! while the /face was blasted with more than 40 degrees of frost was no joke.` There was an eight mile portage on the first tramp and it was slow go- ing. About that time an unfortun- .ate occurrence happened. The head packer was anxious to survey the height of land, but was told to stick to the portage and not venture alone on upper lakes and they would be safer. But he went out to see how the land lay ahead." And that was the last he was seen of till the fol- lowing spring wbn his `body was found in a lake. ; ` ` PackersiFear Land Height The party reached the height of land by Christmas. There were two gangs in the whole party. one ofl about a dozen Irishmen. the other a `dozen Frenchmen. The Irishmen n were granted a day off to celebrate -Christmas. The next day was the Eoum) THEM BEST SHE HAD EVER USED WHAT MRS. PARLEE SAYS or DODD S KIDNEY PILLS Siusex, N.B.,' Woman who Suffered From Many Forms of Kidney Trouble Sings the Praise; of ` Dodl s Kidney Pills. Sussex, N.B., April 10th (Special) i -Mrs. L. Parlee, who lives on Broad Street here, is another of that great army of Canadianwomen who are always ready to say a good word for Dodd s Kidney Pills. Every one of A them has a reason. 11' I,-,__ --__.I `l\...l.`I7... Tfnnuu Dilly uncut nan u zcaavu. I have found Dodd s,Kidn_ey Pills f good value to me, Mrs. Parlee states. I had typhoid and it left me with milk leg." I suffered also from crampsin the muscles, back- -`ache, headache and heart flutterings. My sleep was broken and unrefresh- ing. . I was always tired and nervous and I had dark circles under my eves. . 1------ -1: -n..,1.u- 1'.*:.: anu .l. uau. uuL`x\ L:u.p.1ca uuuc; u;_v vvx.-;n I took two boxes of Dodd s Kid- ` ney Pills and they have done me a lot of good. I have found Dodd s Kidney Bills the best I ever used." _-_.- - .E_.-..- Abnv-n\aJ --,---.. --_- --~ ' Mrs. Parlee s troubles came from the kidneys. Ask your neighbors if Dodd s Kidney Pills are not the most reliable of all kidney remedies, THE BARRIE EXAMINER iFrenchmen s turn. They took it and] then demanded their pay. They had declded not to cross the height of land. Whether some superstition had seized them that to cross the height of land was like crossing the Styx,! nobody knew. There was somethingl in the very name height of land that awedthem. If they crossed it` they would never return, they seem- ed to think. There was something leerie about the point where the wat- ers turned on one side to the `Gulf of St. Lawrence and on the other to Hudson s Bay. The upshot was Mr. I Moberly had to send. back for an- lother gang. ` vvyo . i (*1 , I "'-'- a" Bath in Winter! Sacre! He got a mixed party for the Frenchmen s relief. About that time another party had started from` Klock s to follow. They were to` operate on the south side of Lake Abitibi, and they had to wait for the first party to proceed. While wait- ing this party's engineer thought it a wise and beneficent plan to erect a tent with a stove and allow every- body to take a bath. Everything was French gang they might indulge in /refreshing ablutions. Sacre! Sacre! u arranged and the engineer told his two times; just like that. Then the M foreman packer asked: u11r1...u .. I....+I.. :. um m:n4-m- Hmnv Final Explorations Recounted Over Abitibi Trails where Engineer Discloses Productive Agricultural Soil'.- ` Supply Toters Superstitions of Height of Land . - 1 and Winter Bath.- Calamity River-Named. ' - Back to Native Town after"55' Years. of Explorations. . L\Il. unnuwu yawn-y; no What! a bath give us our time. "I'.nuo -urnncn nknnbo g.IVU LID ULII. uuuc. They were shocked. The engineer lost his packers and the packers took their bath internally back in civiliza- tion. - \~r,,,- - _ ur1-1-_..:;.__ *n:---._n. IIIUII Names Calamity .Rive_r * The first week in January` Mr. Moberly s party had reached a Hud- son s Bay post on Lake Abitibi and a week later reached the point where up the Okeikodosik river. Then he drove a stake and started to run westerly through to Makamik lake, he was to begin his survey, ten miles` forty miles., Half way over the route they ran into a spell of wicked weather. 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