# David Thompson, the explorer

Author: Cochrane, Charles Norris, 1889-1945; Wallace, W. Stewart (William Stewart), 1884-1970 [Editor]

Genre: Category: Biographies

Language: English

License: Public domain

Source: https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/69432

Amazon editions: https://www.amazon.com/s?k=David+Thompson%2C+the+explorer+Cochrane&tag=cyberlibrar00-20

## Summary

On the 30th of December, 1783, the Governors of the Grey Coat School at Westminster, England, received from the secretary of the Hudson's Bay Company a request for four boys, trained in navigation, to be apprenticed to the Company for service at their posts in America. At that time, there were in the school but two boys so qualified--Samuel John McPherson and David Thompson. The one was so terrified by the prospect of perils and hardships unknown, that within a week he ran away from the school and was heard of no more. The other accepted the destiny for which he had been marked out, and became one of the greatest land surveyors that the British race has ever produced.

## Chapters

- [CHAPTER IV](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/david-thompson-the-explorer-69432/chapters/4/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VIII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/david-thompson-the-explorer-69432/chapters/8/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VI](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/david-thompson-the-explorer-69432/chapters/6/index.md)
- [CHAPTER VII](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/david-thompson-the-explorer-69432/chapters/7/index.md)
- [CHAPTER III](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/david-thompson-the-explorer-69432/chapters/3/index.md)
- [CHAPTER V](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/david-thompson-the-explorer-69432/chapters/5/index.md)
- [CHAPTER II](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/david-thompson-the-explorer-69432/chapters/2/index.md)
- [CHAPTER I](https://www.cyberlibrary.org/en/books/david-thompson-the-explorer-69432/chapters/1/index.md)