From Voyageurs National Park on FB: Called “Catamaran” by locals, Bert Upton is among the strangest of historical characters on area waters. He lived in a hut built over a dug-out at Squirrel Narrows. Found frozen to death in the 1930s by Kettle Falls pioneer Oliver Knox; Upton was perched lifeless in the snow just a half-mile from his home. Shunning civilization, Upton defined the word hermit. First spotted rowing his crude log raft on Namakan, no one knows how he got there. Upton’s accent implied an English heritage but any personal inquiries brought a stony silence. Some suspected him a man fleeing the law; others saw a bizarre outcast; everyone knew he was peculiar. Just five feet tall and wildly unkempt, Catamaran wore hacked-off pants and walked barefoot with a stick. Winter demanded shoes but no socks, a cast-off Mackinaw, and a trailing cap made from the leg of old underwear. He was oddly religious, and suspicious of being poisoned. Surviving on snared rabbits and fish, he ofte...
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ReplyDeleteIt dredged the sea bottom... for Deep One polyps and plankton stage Cthonions. Birthed by the Great Race to harvest samples of those species, so complete their records in the Great Library - the time of peace, when Cthonian and Deep One dwelled as allied species in the shallow seas of the Permian Era, before the Great Extinction marking the terminus of the Permian and the beginning of the Triassic, and which ended the old alliance, and set the Cthonians and the Deep Ones to warring for all the remaining epochs of their existence
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