KILLED BY WOLVES.

Otago Daily Times, Issue 21018, 6 May 1930, Page 16

KILLED BY WOLVES.

VICTIM OF THE WANDERLUST. LOVE OP THE SILENT WASTES. ' .A victim of the wanderlust, which led mm to run away from home as a boy. Dr Hurt Faber, German travel writer, was killed recently by wolves in the Barren Lands, north of the Alberta boundary, where the North-West Mounted Police found his remains, Faber had Hornby’s Jove of the Barren Lands and the White Silence. Both returned there and perished there (says the ■ Herald's' Vancouver correspondent). Between his tramps abroad, on which he travelled as a hobo, walking, canoeing, and utilising, any available means of transit,_ Faber found time to'graduate at the University of Wurzburg.' Dr Kurt Martyn, German Consul at Winnipeg, encountered him in Canada, South .America, and South Africa.

‘ Faber started his latest 'adventure, and his last, because be wanted once more to eg the Barren Lauds and to live with the Eskimos there,” said Dr Martyn. “His first introduction to the Northland came when he ; ran away in Alaska with a tribe of Eskimos and came south along the Mackenzie Riyer to Canada's provinces. He was only a, boy then. He had run away from home and gone to the United States. He,idled his way across the continent, reaching 'the wharves of San Francisco, where he was “ shanghaied/' on a North Pacific whaler, whose captain kept him at work till the ship docked at Alaska. Tl “ Though his flair was ‘economics at the university. Dr Faber was one, of the most accomplished of Germany’s adventure and ‘ travel writers,” explained the consul. “He always wanted to live his adventure rather than write it. He carr ried only meagre quantities of money, and often made excursions into sparselysettled countries with virtually no provisions. . .

-“ In Sao Paolo, Brazil, when I was there in 1921, Faber came to me, ill-kept, in tatters, hut smiling. He was acclaimed by the populace, for he had. just walked from Peru. Two years ago. when I was at. Windhoek, South-West Africa, our; paths met - again.- He' was in trouble/ but still smiling. He had charged the engine-driver with being drunk and delaying the train. The driver proceeded against him, and, ,as Faber refused to seek bail, he was held in the lockup, where he engaged in'a hanger .strike. When I secured his release he went off again into the interior, saying he had no particular'destination. “ I heard of him again, pottering around in Central Australia, and then lost track of him until last fall, when he walked into my office at Winnipeg, still with his youthful smile, „on his - way to the Far North. He said he would write, if : be had the urge/ for the German publishing firm of Scherl.. . . “That was his last trek. He perished in the same country as Hornby, among the Eskimos, whom he said he liked best. He was a bachelor of public economy at Wurzburg, but a master of public psychology of the University of the World.”