Notes of a Twenty-Five Years' Service in the Hudson's Bay Territory. Volume I.
CHAPTER XIV.
Fall through the Ice--Dangerous Adventure at a Rapid--Opponents give in--Ordered to Lachine--Treatment on my Arrival--Manners, Habits, and Superstitions of the Indians--Ferocious Revenge of a supposed Injury--Different Methods of the Roman Catholic and Protestant Missionary--Indian Councils--Tradition of the Flood--Beaver Hunting--Language