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Chapter 3 HUMAN NATURE ON THE RIVER

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and Indians that composed the crews. They were strict Sabbatarians (when it suited them);

ork to end in anything but disaster, and they sullenly scattered among the trees, produced their cards, and proceeded to gamble away their property, next year's pay, clothes, families, anything, and otherwise show their respect for the Lord's Day and defiance of old John MacDonald. John ma

art after the first minute, and their

and sketched the canyon looking northward. The spring birds were now beginning to arrive, but were said to

. Each carries a rifle, and every living thing that appears on the banks or on the water is fusilladed with Winchesters until it is dead or ou

uproar and fusillading; so far as could be learned without any effect,

e second or Grand Cascade, a mile farther, is about a six foot sheer drop. These are considered ve

the problem, they decided on the one safe place and manner, then returned, and each of the 13 boats was run over in 13 different places and manners. They alwa

ical practice, for those who were not sick thought they were. I cheerfully did my best for all, and was supposed to be persona grata. Just below the Cascade

or two fine fish, for there were plenty. I, presumably part owner of the catch, since I owned the boat, selected one small one for myself, whereupon the Indian insolently demanded 25 cents for it; and these were the men I had been freely doctoring for two w

was confronted by the fact that among themselves they are kind and hospitable, and at length discovered that their attitude toward us is founded on the ideas that all white men are very rich, that the Indian has made t

to their religion, the half-breeds seized their rifles, the bullets whistled harmlessly about the "Peeshoo"-whereupon he turned and walked calml

reached For

n American ex-patriot, G---, a tall, raw-boned Yank from Illinois. He was a typical American of the kind, that knows little of America and nothing of Europe; but s

as I could. He hung on my lips; he interrupted only when there seemed a halt in the stream; he revelled in, all the details of wrecks by rail and sea. Roosevelt and the trusts-insurance scandals-the So

ns and 45 small ones, wrecked 200 express trains, lynched 96 negroes in the

ngs now; and I tell you I give the worst of them there European coun

ned, courteous Swedes; ye civilised Danes; yo

8. Sometimes these were empty winter cabins; sometimes curious tools left at Hudson's Bay Post

se of common purchase they divided in four equal parts. The stove, the canoe, the lamp, the spade, were broken relentlessly and savagely into four parts-four piles of useless rubbish. The shanty was divided in four. One man had some candles of his own bringing. These he

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Contents

Chapter 1 DEPARTURE FOR THE NORTH Chapter 2 DOWN THE NOISY RIVER WITH THE VOYAGEURS Chapter 3 HUMAN NATURE ON THE RIVER Chapter 4 DOWN THE SILENT RIVER WITH THE MOUNTED POLICE Chapter 5 A CONFERENCE WITH THE CHIEFS Chapter 6 OUT WITH SOUSI BEAULIEU Chapter 7 THE BUFFALO HUNT Chapter 8 THOMAS ANDERSON Chapter 9 MOSQUITOES Chapter 10 A BAD CASE Chapter 11 THE SECOND BUFFALO HUNT
Chapter 12 BEZKYA AND THE PILLS
Chapter 13 FORT SMITH AND THE SOCIAL QUEEN
Chapter 14 RABBITS AND LYNXES IN THE NORTH-WEST
Chapter 15 EBB AND FLOW OF ANIMAL LIFE
Chapter 16 THE PELICAN TRIP
Chapter 17 THE THIRD BUFFALO HUNT
Chapter 18 DOWN TO FUNDAMENTALS
Chapter 19 WHITE MAN AND RED. MEAT, BUT NOTHING MORE
Chapter 20 ON THE NYARLING
Chapter 21 FORT RESOLUTION AND ITS FOLK
Chapter 22 THE CHIPEWYANS, THEIR SPEECH AND WRITING
Chapter 23 THE DOGS OF FORT RESOLUTION
Chapter 24 THE VOYAGE ACROSS THE LAKE
Chapter 25 CROSSING THE LAKE-ITS NATURAL HISTORY
Chapter 26 THE LYNX AT BAY
Chapter 27 THE LAST OF THAT INDIAN CREW
Chapter 28 GEOLOGICAL FORCES AT WORK
Chapter 29 PIKE'S PORTAGE
Chapter 30 CARIBOU-LAND AT LAST
Chapter 31 GOOD-BYE TO THE WOODS
Chapter 32 THE TREELESS PLAINS
Chapter 33 THE UNKNOWN
Chapter 34 AYLMER LAKE
Chapter 35 THE MUSK-OX
Chapter 36 THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES AND MY FARTHEST NORTH
Chapter 37 FACING HOMEWARD
Chapter 38 THE FIRST WOODS
Chapter 39 FAREWELL TO THE CARIBOU
Chapter 40 OLD FORT RELIANCE TO FORT RESOLUTION
Chapter 41 GOING UP THE LOWER SLAVE
Chapter 42 FORT SMITH AND THE TUG
Chapter 43 No.43
Chapter 44 THE RIVER
Chapter 45 THE RIVER SHOWS ITS TEETH
Chapter 46 BRIGHT AGAIN
Chapter 47 WHEN NATURE SMILED
Chapter 48 THE END
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