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The Long Labrador Trail by Dillon Wallace
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"The Hills Grew Higher and Higher"
"We Turned Into a Pass Leading to the Northward"
The Moravian Mission at Ramah
"Plodding Southward Over the Endless Snow"
"Nain, the Moravian Headquarters in Labrador"
"The Indians Were Here"
Geological Specimens
Maps.





CHAPTER I

THE VOICE OF THE WILDERNESS

"It's always the way, Wallace! When a fellow starts on the long
trail, he's never willing to quit. It'll be the same with you if you
go with me to Labrador. When you come home, you'll hear the voice of
the wilderness calling you to return, and it will lure you back
again."

It seems but yesterday that Hubbard uttered those prophetic words as
he and I lay before our blazing camp fire in the snow-covered
Shawangunk Mountains on that November night in the year 1901, and
planned that fateful trip into the unexplored Labrador wilderness
which was to cost my dear friend his life, and both of us
indescribable sufferings and hardships. And how true a prophecy it
was! You who have smelled the camp fire smoke; who have drunk in the
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