EXPLORER'S PLIGHT.

Ashburton Guardian, Volume XLI, Issue 9290, 11 August 1920, Page 8

EXPLORER'S PLIGHT.

FOODLESS.WITH WOUNDED MAN HVA'iV.v <.. (IN;' JUNGLE.' „ „ : _.^ U^oi-y' of"•■a'dyifentur.es "in th'e:-wilds vof Northern Quebec, is told W f Mr ill;!' F. - Blake, who has returned tb; Quebec, ■ bringing with him Dr. Cor'bett, an Ottawa expedition's medical f man, '; injured by. a 1 gunA..;- well-requippe'd party left at the beginning of March to explore Ungava .'-rin'i' 1 ■behalf 'of a syndicate -of London bankers interested rin the, proposed Qucbec-Chiboucamo railway,..-and also to' investigate the mineral deposits of Central l)ne;ava. , Travelling by dog tram, they reached. Lake. Chibougamo, and'encamped to await, the • ice breaking tol them to continue by , canoe.;' ■ On' April 20 Dr. Corbett accidentally shofehimscJf in tlie body .when taking a: guii vf r.ojii a. canoe. Mr Blake's =urgicai^cxpcriciico in '.the..••';war enabled himito'.cTress.tho woiind, but he was ■faced-with the problem.'of, conveying his/patient through 160 miles of dense trackless forest.. .With the assistance of-Mr'.Cuthbertson and six men, Mr Blake ;drew ;.the wounded man on a tobbggau over the. treacherous _ ice lakes until , they reached the River Ashiiapmouchpuan. where the ice was ■gone, and embarked in two canoes. '-The second- canoe was upset, with nve:rnen, all the-provisions beine; lost'/ Blake, in the other canoe with, the ; wounded man, rescued the ; men. Their canoe- was, however, swept over' the ■'frills.-/-.- I. ■• ■ . .. : . ■'. !! The-joumey-was resumed, with the patient in a stretcher, ofoot through a 'p'athle'ps forest and- with nothing to ve'rit. After four days' starvation Mr !Blake with two men pushed ahead to ?an :■'outpost and ■ assistance . to ■ convey ■;;'Dr. Cprbett to _.'• Roberv'a'l'J whbro; • after t'v/p.: days' medical .attention, the' doctor v.-afs 'nble to be sent home to Ottawa:./ fl Jir is probably 1ife.,...-/'.',..'-.V-/-p,»-■-.■' - ■'„