Category: Historical Novels
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"Don't be too rough with them," said Uncle Dick, laughingly. "Like everything else up here, they may not be the best in the world, but they do for their purpose. These scows are...
5. Chapter 5"Over yonder is a tombstone, but not any monument for Sir Alexander. It tells about the life-history of an old factor who lived here for so long in this wilderness. It's all old...
8. Chapter 8They went aboard one whale-boat and discovered that its owner, a stalwart Husky, had brought in a hundred marten and a hundred mink, and half as many white-foxes and lynx. He ex...
4. Chapter 4Rob glanced on ahead. He could see a long line of men bending under the great rope which had been floated down to them in this curious way. They walked inshore, steadily followi...
3. Chapter 3It came out precisely as Uncle Dick had said. Very late in the afternoon--late by the clock, though not so late by the sun, which at this latitude sank very late in the west--th...
10. Chapter 10"_Saturday, July 26th._--Flies not so bad. Tried out our creek farther and came into third small lake. Cut a portage into next lake. The creek is very blind--wanders around thro...
11. Chapter 11"To-day passed a boat tracking up-stream for Rampart. A man and dog were pulling. They had a sail set to help, and the steersman was poling and paddling the best he could to hel...
7. Chapter 7"At Fort Resolution there were Chippewyans, Dog Ribs, Slavies, and Yellow Knives, all mixed. At Hay River there were Dog Ribs and Slavies. At Providence they are all Slavies, an...
9. Chapter 9"Take your socks, fellows," said Rob. "We'll have to kill every one in the tent, or they won't let us sleep to-night. Jesse's right; these little fellows bite worse than anythin...
6. Chapter 6"They tell me that they are not going to drag all the scows across," said John. "They're going to try to run that bad chute below our landing with a couple of scows. The men say...
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12. Chapter 12"_Tuesday, August 12th._--At 1.30 in the morning we made Circle City, which, as everybody knows, is right on the Arctic Circle, or was supposed to be. This was the first time Un...
13. Chapter 13"Do I renew my promise never to take them on another trip? Of course I remember that _promise_, but can I manage to keep it, now that these chaps are such good travelers? I don'...