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wind was blowing in the wrong direction, and defeated his 

 attempt to benefit by the help that was so near. Later, the 

 unhappy man swooned. 



About noon the brother, finding the sufferer's trail, arrived 

 upon the* scene, removed the drop-log, picked up the uncon- 

 scious man, and carrying him to his canoe, cut away the thwarts 

 and laid him in. After a paddle of fifteen miles to the portage 

 landing, he left the stricken wretch in the canoe, and ran four 

 miles to get help. With other men and two horses he speedily 

 returned, rigged up a stage swung between the horses, and lay- 

 ing Marasty thereon, transported him through the bush to his 

 home. 



In the meantime, an express had been despatched to Prince 

 Albert to summon a doctor; but the old Indian women could 

 not bear to wait so long for the coming of relief, so filing a big 

 knife into a fine-toothed saw, they cut away the bruised flesh 

 and sawed off the broken bones. They made a clean amputa- 

 tion which they dressed with a poultice made from well-boiled 

 inner bark of juniper, and not only did no mortification set in, 

 but the arm healed nicely; and when the doctor arrived ten 

 days later, he examined the amputation carefully and said that 

 there was nothing for him to do : the old women had done their 

 work so well. Marasty quickly recovered, and next winter he 

 was on the hunting trail again. 



HOW BEARS ARE HUNTED 



After spending three days upon the trapping trail we re- 

 turned to camp; but because our toboggan was loaded with 

 game, and also because we did not return by our outgoing route, 

 the grandmother and the two boys set out to bring in the bear 

 meat and the bear's head. During the feast that followed 

 Oo-koo-hoo addressed the bear's head with superstitious awe 

 and again begged it not to be offended or angry because it had 



