Category: Adventure

Marooned in the Forest: The Story of a Primitive Fight for Life

It all happened in the twinkling of an eye. I turned quickly at a sudden cry from Joe—my half-breed guide—in time to see him cast the handle of his broken paddle aside and leap forward for the extra paddle. Before he could reach it the canoe swerved, swung broadside to the rus...

Chapters

12. CHAPTER XII

After a short rest and a hearty meal of broiled venison I felt greatly refreshed. Then I skinned the deer and hung the hide upon the wall to dry. I had no means of tanning it, u...

15. CHAPTER XV

I had thought the matter out many times already and had decided to set forth well provided with food, with all my weapons, my necessary utensils, and a supply of tanned skin, fo...

2. CHAPTER II

I was awakened by a shaft of sunlight striking my face, and opened my eyes to find the day well advanced. My first thought was of the fire, which had burned completely out. A th...

4. CHAPTER IV

Although I felt a hunter’s elation at having captured the beaver, he was really of less value to me than a muskrat. His flesh, especially his tail, was edible, I knew, but I dou...

13. CHAPTER XIII

For some time after my adventure with the lynx no event worth recording occurred and I led a humdrum, lonely life. I had much to be thankful for, however, for I had little diffi...

10. CHAPTER X

The sound of my own voice was a great relief. Suddenly my foolish terror vanished, and with a sudden reaction of feeling I broke into peals of laughter as I realized that the bl...

9. CHAPTER IX

Each second I expected to feel the enraged bear tearing at the door behind me, and I cursed my folly in having attacked him, for I realized that, unmolested, he would have, no d...

5. CHAPTER V

All day long I tramped onward, following the course of the river, but frequently entering the woods and trudging through the forest for several miles to avoid impassable portion...

8. CHAPTER VIII

My visitor was a porcupine, a great, clumsy creature who was far more frightened at my presence than I at his. Realizing that here was food come to my larder of its own free wil...

11. CHAPTER XI

I was indeed thankful that I had enough food on hand to satisfy my wants for a number of days, for to hunt or trap in such weather was an utter impossibility. My stock of fire-w...

7. CHAPTER VII

I opened my eyes to find that night had fallen. My first sensations were of unutterable pain; I was chilled through, racked with agony, and weak and faint from my injuries, and...

6. CHAPTER VI

I had expected to see tilled fields, shingled houses, perhaps a distant village or at least a clearing, with blackened stumps, a tiny shack, or rude buildings marking the outpos...

1. CHAPTER I

It all happened in the twinkling of an eye. I turned quickly at a sudden cry from Joe—my half-breed guide—in time to see him cast the handle of his broken paddle aside and leap...

14. CHAPTER XIV

Impatient as I was to start on my journey, I had no intention of taking any risks, for I well knew the treachery of spring weather, and that a belated snow-storm might yet arrive.

3. CHAPTER III

For a moment I was almost stunned by the discovery, but presently I realized that some prowling creature had robbed me of the fish which I had taken such pains to capture, and t...