LIVES SAVED
1 TRAPPERS DISCOYER STORES j CACHED IN ! . 1915. Edmonton, Tuesday. Another of the epics of the Arctic North was revealed to-day by Napoleon VeVrille, 32, trapper, who arrived here after nearly losing his life in the first visit to Melville Island by a white man since that of Vilhjalmur Stefansson in 1915. Equipment left on the remote northern island by the famous explorer saved the lives of Verville and his partner, Alex. Austin, when they were trapped in a blizzard. Verville came here to enter a hospital for treatment of his feet. He froze them in a blizzard off Banks Land and was forced to amputate three toes, wielding a razor in the sub-zero temperatures of a rude snow and icsl sh'elter.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 374, 8 November 1932, Page 7
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124LIVES SAVED Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 374, 8 November 1932, Page 7
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