South from Hudson Bay: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys

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Brill Ethel Claire. South from Hudson Bay: An Adventure and Mystery Story for Boys

I. THE NEW LAND

II. FORT YORK

III. THE SELKIRK COLONY AND THE RIVAL FUR TRADERS

IV. THE START FROM FORT YORK

V. THE BLACK MURRAY

VI. TOILING UP STREAM

VII. NORWAY HOUSE

VIII. THE MISSING PEMMICAN

IX. HUNGER AND COLD

X. THE RED RIVER AT LAST

XI. FORT DOUGLAS

XII. BY CART TRAIN TO PEMBINA

XIII. THE RED-HEADED SCOTCH BOY

XIV. PEMBINA

XV. THE OJIBWA HUNTER

XVI. LETTERS FROM FORT DOUGLAS

XVII. CHRISTMAS AT PEMBINA

XVIII. MIRAGE OF THE PRAIRIE

XIX. BLIZZARD

XX. A NIGHT ATTACK

XXI. THE BURNED CABIN

XXII. THE PAINTED BUFFALO SKULL

XXIII. UNWELCOME VISITORS

XXIV. A SORE HAND

XXV. THE TRAVELERS WITHOUT SNOWSHOES

XXVI. ELISE’S STORY

XXVII. WHY THE PERIERS CAME TO PEMBINA

XXVIII. THE LAND TO THE SOUTH

XXIX. THE COMING OF THE SIOUX

XXX. WITH THE BUFFALO HUNTERS

XXXI. THE CHARGING BUFFALO

XXXII. TO THE SHEYENNE RIVER

XXXIII. A LONELY CAMP

XXIV. DANGER

XXXV. IN THE CHIEF’S TIPI

XXXVI. THE WHITE TRADER

XXXVII. FLIGHT

XXXVIII. THE FIGHT AT THE BOIS DES SIOUX

XXXIX. SAFE

XL. CONCLUSION

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The Perier family were among the last of the immigrants to go ashore. Very much like a homeless wanderer, motherless Elise Perier felt as she stood on the river bank beside her father, with Max clinging to her hand, and their scanty belongings piled around them. It was good to be on land again of course, but this was such a strange land. In spite of cramped quarters, poor food, seasickness, and the other hardships of the voyage, the Lord Wellington seemed almost homelike compared to this wild, barren country. Elise tried bravely to smile at her father and Walter, but she felt as if she must cry instead.

Captain Mai was calling them. “Go right up to the fort, Perier. I want to get you all together.”

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“Half-breed I imagine. Finely built fellow, isn’t he? Has the strength of a moose, they say. He is an expert voyageur.”

“I don’t like him,” Walter commented.

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