to be released from school. By this time he had become the
associate editor of the magazine for which he had been writing, but
he had finally been able to induce his employers to consent to the
project upon which he had set his heart and grant him a leave of
absence.

"It will be a big thing, Wallace," he said in closing; "it ought to
make my reputation."

Into the project of penetrating the vast solitudes of desolate
Labrador, over which still brooded the fascinating twilight of the
mysterious unknown, Hubbard, with characteristic zeal, threw his
whole heart and soul. Systematically and thoroughly he went about
planning, in the minutest detail, our outfit and entire journey.
Every possible contingency received the most careful consideration.

In order to make plain just what he hoped to accomplish and the
conditions against which he had to provide, the reader's patience
is asked for a few minutes while something is told of what was
known of Labrador at the time Hubbard was making preparations for
his expedition.

The interior of the peninsula of Labrador is a rolling plateau, the
land rising more or less abruptly from the coast to a height of two
thousand or more feet above the level of the sea. Scattered over
this plateau are numerous lakes and marshes. The rivers and
streams discharging the waters of the lakes into the sea flow to
the four points of the compass--into the Atlantic and its inlets on
the east, into Ungava Bay on the north, Hudson Bay and James Bay on
the west, and the Gulf of St. Lawrence on the south. Owing to the