CONTENTS. Yll 



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the Crees of the PLains — Indian Children — Absence of Deformity — A 

 " Moss-bag " — Kekekooarsis and his Domestic Troubles — Tlie Winter 

 begins in Earnest — Wariness of all Animals — Poisoning Wolves — 

 Caution of the Foxes — La Ronde and Cheadle start for the Plains — 

 Little Misquaiiamayoo — Milton's Charwoman — On the Prairies — Stalk- 

 ing Buffalo — Belated — A Treacherous Blanket — A Cold Night Watch 

 — More Hunting — Cheadle's Wits go Wool-gathering — La Ronde's 

 Indignation — Lost all Night — Out in the Cold again — Our Camp 

 Pillaged — Turn Homewards — Rough and Ready Travelling — Arrive at 

 Fort Milton — Feasting 79 



CHAPTER VIL 



Trapping — The Fur-bearing Animals — Value of different Furs — The 

 Trapper's Start into the Forest — How to make a Marten Trap — Steel 

 Traps for Wolves and Foxes — The Wolverine — The Way he Gets a 

 Living — His Destructiveness and Persecution of the Trapper — His 

 Cunning — His Behaviour when caught in a Trap — La Ronde's Stories 

 of the Carcajou — The Trapper's Life — The Vast Forest in Winter — 

 Sleeping Out — The Walk — Indians and Half-breeds — Their Instinct 

 in the Woods — The Wolverine Demolishes our Traps — Attempts to 

 Poison him — Treemiss's Arrival — He relates his Adventures — A Sci-ini- 

 mage in the Dark — The Giant Tamboot — His Fight with Atahk-akoohp 

 — Prowess of Tamboot — Decide to send our Men to Red River for 

 Supplies — Delays .......... 99 



CHAPTER VIIL 



Milton visits Carlton — Fast Travelling — La Ronde and Bruneau set out for 

 Fort Gany — Trapping with Misquapamayoo — Machinations against the 

 Wolverine — The Animals' Fishery — The Wolverine outwits us — Return ■ 

 Home — The Cree Language — How an Indian tells a Story — New Year's 

 Day among the Crees — To the Prairies again — The Cold — Travelling 

 with Dog-sleighs — Out in the Snow — Our New Attendants — Prospect 

 of Starvation — A Day of Expectation — A Rapid Retreat — The Journey 

 Home — Indian Voracity — Res Augusta Domi — Cheadle's Journey to 

 the Fort — Perversity of his Companions — "The Hunter" yields to 

 Temptation — Milton's Visit to Kekekooarsis — A Medicine Feast — The 

 New Song — Cheadle's Journey Home — Isbister and his Dogs — Mahay- 

 gun, " The Wolf "—Pride and Starvation— Our Meeting at White Fish 

 Lake "^ 113 



CHAPTER IX. 

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Our New Acquaintances — Taking it Quietly — Mahaygun Fraternises with 



Keenamontiayoo — The Carouse — Importunities for Rum — The Hunter 



asks for more — A Tiresome Evening — Keenamontiayoo Renounces us 



— His Night Adventure — Misquapamayoo's Devotion — The Hunter 



returns Penitent — The Plains again — The Wolverine on our Track — 



The Last Band of Bufialo— Gaytchi Mohkamarn, " The Big Knife "— 



