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Show LIVED ON DOQ MEAT. Two Men In the Klondike Endure Great Suffering. Reduced to stnrvntlon In tho Arctic wilderness In tho Yukon region, Victor Vic-tor Vlrgll I.owry and John Ilovlns of Dawson maintained their lives on dog and porcuplno flesh. Tho story of the Buffering and hardship of tho mon has Just reached Dawson by mall. The two men wore en routo from Dawson to tho Koyukuk diggings. They left Dawson October 10. Tho fifth day after being lost their food becamo exhausted. ex-hausted. Tho men woro In desper-ato desper-ato straits. They had no gun with which to shoot gamo, and not a living Bonl nor n placo of rorugo was known to bo within hundreds of miles. In their desperation they could not pai ley over tho proprieties of nicety. J.owry's faithful dog, his companion for three yenrs, was tho only uvaltable nourco of food. Tho dog was killed and eaten, Hut tho flesh from tho animal did not Inst long. Tho two enervated men trnvelcd two days moro without n mouthful of food, when they camo upon a young porcupine. This they inn down and clubbed to death and dovourod partly roasted. Twenty days after they had started out tho mon wandeted Into a wood chopper's camp on tho Yulcon, almost dead. After a few days they woro nourished sufficiently to travel. |