Cleveland, Apr. 15.
You can't "live alone and like it" in the frozen north, believes Sydney R. Montague, a former member of the Canadian* Royal Mounted" Police. Montague spent three years in Baffinland, 2000 miles north of New York and northeast of Hudson's Bay.
"You may be able to live alone for Of 10 men who went into Baffinland, Montague was one of two to return healthy and sane. "Two others returned, but one was minus an arm and the other had a leg cut off," he said. "Three of the others committed Suicide, and the rest died natural deaths."
Montague said he thought he was going to be one of those who never ome back. was stranded on a piece of ice with five Eskimos for 48 days—which is plenty of time to it over," he said. "We had Atlantic. We had enough seal meat for 18 days and stretched that as far as we could."
Montague said that after that they were forced to eat their dogs. "We started with 180 dogs and came back with 56 when a freak wind blew us back to the shore. I had always thought that when death is near like that, one would think of all the sins he had committed. All I thought of were the good times I had missed because I was afraid of life."
Montague said that when a white man regards himself as better than the natives, as usually is the case, and lives apart, few can stand it after the first few months, and insanity results.
Montague became 2 mountie when he was 19 and served in various parts of Canada for 14 years. "A white man in the North is better off and healthier if he eats native food." he said, "and this means all parts of any animal, than if he tries to live on canned goods and other things brought from civilization."—United Press.
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