Show LIVED ON DOG MEAT two men in the klond ke endure great suffering reduced to starvation in the arctic wilderness in the yukon region vc vic tor I 1 birgil lo lowry loary ary and ivohn bevans of dawson maintained their lies on dog and porcupine flesh the story of the suffering and hardship of the men ha lim just reached dawson by mail T ie le two men were en route from froni dawson to the koyukuk diggings they left dawson october 10 the fifth day after being lost their food became ex hausted the men were in desper ate straits they had no gun with which to shoot game and not a living soul nor a place of refuge was known to be within hundreds of milea miles in their desperation they could not parley over the proprieties of nicety lowry s faithful dog his companion tor for three years was the only available source of food the dog was killed and eaten but the flesh from the animal did not last long the two enervated men traveled two days more without a mouth fIl il of food when they came upon a young porcupine this they ran down and clubbed to death and devoured partly roasted twenty days after they had started out the men wandered into a wood chopper choppers s camp on the yukon almost dead after a few days they were nourished sufficiently to travel |