Pre-Owned The North-West Passage by Land: Being the Narrative of an Expedition from the Atlantic to the Pacific (Classic Reprint) (Paperback) 1331874459 9781331874454

Excerpt from The North-West Passage by Land: Being the Narrative of an Expedition From the Atlantic to the Pacific Sufi'erings - The N orth-westers - The Grasshoppers - The Blackbirds The Flood - The Colony in 1862 - King Company - Farming at Red River - Fertility of the Soil - Isolated Position of the Colony - Obstrue tive Policy of the Company - Their Just Dealing and Kindness to the Indians - Necessity for a Proper Colonial Government - Value of the Country - French Canadians and Half-breeds - Their Idleness and Frivolity - Hunters and Voyageurs - Extraordinary Endurance - The English and Scotch Settlers - The Spring and Fall Hunt - Our Life at Fort Garry - Too Late to cross the Mountains before Winter - Our Plans - Men - Horses - Bucephalus - Our Equipment - Leave Fort Garry - The N oce - La Ronde's Last Carouse - Delightful Travelling - A Night Alarm - vitaldeserts - Fort Ellice - Delays - Making Pemmican Its Value to the Traveller - Swarms of wild-fowl - Good Shooting The Indian Summer - A Salt Lake Country - Search for Water - A Horse's Instinct - South Saskatchewan - Arrive at Carlton 36. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.