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... route lay through the unsettled wilderness , where it re- quired no conscience to tell the young recruits to " scorn running with their heels : " the most courageous fiend would have had difficulty in saying where they could run to ...
... route lay through the unsettled wilderness , where it re- quired no conscience to tell the young recruits to " scorn running with their heels : " the most courageous fiend would have had difficulty in saying where they could run to ...
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... route lay partly on lake and river way , and partly through the woods to Norway House , and from thence on Lake Winipeg to the mouth of the Red River . We travelled as fast as the dogs could follow , which , for the greater part of the ...
... route lay partly on lake and river way , and partly through the woods to Norway House , and from thence on Lake Winipeg to the mouth of the Red River . We travelled as fast as the dogs could follow , which , for the greater part of the ...
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... route . Their head quarters this winter , are at Fort Reliance , eastern ex- tremity of Great Slave Lake , whence the Cap- tain last fall ascended a river , passed several lakes with intermediate portages at the height of land , and ...
... route . Their head quarters this winter , are at Fort Reliance , eastern ex- tremity of Great Slave Lake , whence the Cap- tain last fall ascended a river , passed several lakes with intermediate portages at the height of land , and ...
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... route to it was through a country occupied by numerous savage tribes , where the means of subsistence were scanty , and the navigation unfit for any other craft than frail birch - bark canoes- yet we have evidence that , at these ...
... route to it was through a country occupied by numerous savage tribes , where the means of subsistence were scanty , and the navigation unfit for any other craft than frail birch - bark canoes- yet we have evidence that , at these ...
Page 120
... route on the 23rd of May , they kept to the northward : the march was toilsome in the extreme , for the snow was deep yet soft , and their luggage heavy to haul , and still more so to carry on the back . Hearne often suf- fered ...
... route on the 23rd of May , they kept to the northward : the march was toilsome in the extreme , for the snow was deep yet soft , and their luggage heavy to haul , and still more so to carry on the back . Hearne often suf- fered ...
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ALEXANDER SIMPSON America Arctic coast Arctic Discovery Arctic Ocean arrived Athabasca August Back's Bear Lake boats brother Canada Canadian canoes Cape Barrow Captain Back Captain Franklin Chief Trader Chipewyan cold Company's Coppermine River crossed Dease Dease's River Deponent distance dogs eastward encampment England Esquimaux establishment expedition exploration extremity fall fatigue Fish River Fort Chipewyan Fort Reliance Governor Simpson Hearne honour hope Hudson's Bay Company hundred Indians islands journey July June labours land Legros letter Mackenzie River ments miles mind mouth narrative natives navigation North north-west northern Norway House object officers party passage passed pemican Point Barrow portage pounds proceeded provisions reached Red River Colony Ross route Saulteaux season servants shore Simp Slave Lake snow spring Straits success summer survey thence THOMAS SIMPSON tion trade travelling tribes Victoria Land voyage westward winter York Factory
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Page 413 - A strange fish! Were I in England now, as once I was, and had but this fish painted, not a holiday fool there but would give a piece of silver. There would this monster make a man. Any strange beast there makes a man. When they will not give a doit to relieve a lame beggar, they will lay out ten to see a dead Indian. Legg'd like a man! and his fins like arms! Warm, o
Page 24 - As in the succession of the seasons, each, by the invariable laws of Nature, affects the productions of what is next in course ; so, in human life, every period of our age, according as it is well or ill spent, influences the happiness of that which is to follow. Virtuous youth gradually brings forward accomplished and flourishing manhood ; and such manhood passes of itself, without uneasiness, into respectable and tranquil old age. But when nature is turned out of its regular course, disorder takes...
Page 350 - Tis not, as heads that never ache suppose, Forgery of fancy and a dream of woes ; Man is a harp whose chords elude the sight, Each yielding harmony, disposed aright, The screws reversed, (a task which if he please God in a moment executes with ease,) Ten thousand thousand strings at once go loose, Lost, till he tune them, all their power and use.
Page 14 - As watchman to my heart. But, good my brother, Do not, as some ungracious pastors do, Show me the steep and thorny way to heaven, Whilst, like a puffd and reckless libertine, Himself the primrose path of dalliance treads And recks not his own rede.
Page 24 - If the spring put forth no blossoms, in summer there will be no beauty, and in autumn, no fruit: so, if youth be trifled away without improvement, manhood will probably be contemptible, and old age miserable.
Page 314 - August was signalised by the most terrific thunder-storm we have ever witnessed in these regions. Next day it blew roughly from the westward, with a very dense cold fog, but we ran rapidly south-east...
Page 318 - Boss, is in all probability one of the southeastern promontories of Boothia. We could therefore hardly doubt being now arrived at that large gulf uniformly described by the Esquimaux as containing many islands, and with numerous indentations, running down to the southward till it approaches within forty miles of Repulse and Wager Bays.
Page 71 - It smokes, and then with trembling breath she blows, Till in a cheerful blaze the flames arose. With brushwood and with chips she strengthens these, And adds at last the boughs of rotten trees. The fire thus formed, she sets the kettle on...
Page 134 - The suffering it occasions can be but faintly imagined by a person who thinks upon the inconvenience of marching with a weight of between two and three pounds constantly attached to galled feet, and swelled ankles.
Page 26 - I can enjoy her while she's kind; But when she dances in the wind, And shakes her wings, and will not stay, I puff the prostitute away.