ISLAND HERMIT
An exile far away has lately been over to England from Canada. He was glad to sec the Old Country, but soon began to long for solitude. Now ho has gone back to the snows of the V k ° n for another four years with his mends the Eskimos. He will go by train from the docks to Edmonton, where he will join an air liner for another 2000 miles 01 comfortable travel. He will leave the air liner at a placo where his dog team will be waiting, and they will take him 150 miles through the snow to lus lonely home on Herschel Island snowbound for nine months of every yean Once again he will live on wild duck and caribou, and cet his letters twice a year; but he has a wireless set and listens every day to Big Ben in London. He is Mr. Bennett, and his English home is in Brighton.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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158ISLAND HERMIT New Zealand Herald, Volume LXXV, Issue 23037, 14 May 1938, Page 9 (Supplement)
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