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Ernest Thompson Seton. The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou
The Arctic Prairies : a Canoe-Journey of 2,000 Miles in Search of the Caribou
Table of Contents
PREFACE
ERNEST THOMPSON SETON. CHAPTER I
DEPARTURE FOR THE NORTH
CHAPTER II
DOWN THE NOISY RIVER WITH THE VOYAGEURS
CHAPTER III
HUMAN NATURE ON THE RIVER
CHAPTER IV
DOWN THE SILENT RIVER WITH THE MOUNTED POLICE
CHAPTER V
A CONFERENCE WITH THE CHIEFS
CHAPTER VI
OUT WITH SOUSI BEAULIEU
CHAPTER VII
THE BUFFALO HUNT
CHAPTER VIII
THOMAS ANDERSON
CHAPTER IX
MOSQUITOES
CHAPTER X
A BAD CASE
CHAPTER XI
THE SECOND BUFFALO HUNT
CHAPTER XII
BEZKYA AND THE PILLS
CHAPTER XIII
FORT SMITH AND THE SOCIAL QUEEN
CHAPTER XIV
RABBITS AND LYNXES IN THE NORTH-WEST
CHAPTER XV
EBB AND FLOW OF ANIMAL LIFE
CHAPTER XVI
THE PELICAN TRIP
CHAPTER XVII
THE THIRD BUFFALO HUNT
CHAPTER XVIII
DOWN TO FUNDAMENTALS
CHAPTER XIX
WHITE MAN AND RED. MEAT, BUT NOTHING MORE
CHAPTER XX
ON THE NYARLING
CHAPTER XXI
FORT RESOLUTION AND ITS FOLK
CHAPTER XXII
THE CHIPEWYANS, THEIR SPEECH AND WRITING
CHAPTER XXIII
THE DOGS OF FORT RESOLUTION
CHAPTER XXIV
THE VOYAGE ACROSS THE LAKE
CHAPTER XXV
CROSSING THE LAKE—ITS NATURAL HISTORY
CHAPTER XXVI
THE LYNX AT BAY
CHAPTER XXVII
THE LAST OF THAT INDIAN CREW
CHAPTER XXVIII
GEOLOGICAL FORCES AT WORK
CHAPTER XXIX
PIKE'S PORTAGE. Part of my plan was to leave a provision cache every hundred miles, with enough food to carry us 200 miles, and thus cover the possibility of considerable loss. I had left supplies at Chipewyan, Smith, and Resolution, but these were settlements; now we were pushing off into the absolute wilderness, where it was unlikely we should see any human beings but ourselves. Now, indeed, we were facing all primitive conditions. Other travellers have made similar plans for food stores, but there are three deadly enemies to a cache—weather, ravens, and wolverines., I was prepared for all three. Water-proof leatheroid cases were to turn the storm, dancing tins and lines will scare the ravens, and each cache tree was made unclimbable to Wolverines by the addition of a necklace of charms in the form of large fish-hooks, all nailed on with points downward. This idea, borrowed from, Tyrrell, has always proved a success; and not one of our caches was touched or injured
CHAPTER XXX
CARIBOU-LAND AT LAST
CHAPTER XXXI
GOOD-BYE TO THE WOODS
CHAPTER XXXII
THE TREELESS PLAINS
CHAPTER XXXIII
THE UNKNOWN
CHAPTER XXXIV
AYLMER LAKE
CHAPTER XXXV
THE MUSK-OX
CHAPTER XXXVI
THE ARCTIC PRAIRIES AND MY FARTHEST NORTH
CHAPTER XXXVII
FACING HOMEWARD
CHAPTER XXXVIII
THE FIRST WOODS
CHAPTER XXXIX
FAREWELL TO THE CARIBOU
CHAPTER XL
OLD FORT RELIANCE TO FORT RESOLUTION
CHAPTER XLI
GOING UP THE LOWER SLAVE
CHAPTER XLII
FORT SMITH AND THE TUG
CHAPTER XLIII
CHAPTER XLIV
THE RIVER
CHAPTER XLV
THE RIVER SHOWS ITS TEETH
CHAPTER XLVI
BRIGHT AGAIN
CHAPTER XLVII
WHEN NATURE SMILED
CHAPTER XLVIII
THE END
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Ernest Thompson Seton
Being the Account of a Voyage to the Region North of Aylemer Lake
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The Athabaska below Fort MacMurray is a noble stream, one-third of a mile wide, deep, steady, unmarred; the banks are covered with unbroken virginal forests of tall white poplar, balsam poplar, spruce, and birch. The fire has done no damage here as yet, the axe has left no trace, there are no houses, no sign of man except occasional teepee poles. I could fancy myself floating down the Ohio two hundred years ago.
These were bright days to be remembered, as we drifted down its placid tide in our ample and comfortable boat, with abundance of good things. Calm, lovely, spring weather; ducks all along the river; plenty of food, which is the northerner's idea of bliss; plenty of water, which is the river-man's notion of joy; plenty of leisure, which is an element in most men's heaven, for we had merely to float with the stream, three miles an hour, except when we landed to eat or sleep.
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