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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1885 edition. Excerpt: ... chuck,--konaway nameluce," which is "bad water--all will be killed;" he put in his paddle and lay down in the bottom of the canoe. I crawled over him, and getting hold of the paddle Perry and I managed to keep the canoe out of the whirls, &c, that threatened to suck us down. At one moment we were on the edge of one of these dangerous places, and the next swept a hundred yards away by a tremendous "boil." Sometimes one end of the canoe became the bow, and at other times the opposite end, but at length we reached a little sandy cove and landed in still water. We had run the " Little Dalles" without knowing it. CHAPTER XVI. On our way we landed on a bar in the river at its upper end, and as the Indians were getting a meal ready, I saw what I took to be a deer jump into the river several hundred feet above ua. I called the Indian, and we pushed the canoe up the shallow water above the bar, the Indian telling me it was a bear and not a deer that we were after. The strong current swept the bear near to us and we kept close to and above him. I was in the bow and could have laid my hand on him at any moment, but I wished to save him for food, and waited until we came close to the river bank, when, placing my revolver close behind his ear, I shot him dead. He plunged his head under the water, and catching hold of one of his hind legs we landed him. We now ran on down to the head of the Upper Arrow Lake, and finding the mosquitoes very numerous we camped on a small sandy shoal and proceeded to dry and smoke the bear. At the head of the lake, a short distance to the right of the mouth of the river, I saw a large wooden cross. Curiosity induced me to find its origin, and I afterwards learnt the following:--One of the Hudson Bay Company's boats was...
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- PublisherTheClassics.us
- Publication date2013
- ISBN 10 1230401768
- ISBN 13 9781230401768
- BindingPaperback
- Number of pages30
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