SCOUTING FOR GIRLS 
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Chapter of the Daughters of the Empire, and dedicated 
it to Princess Patricia, whose name was given to the 
famous ‘‘Princess Pat” regiment. 
“On Vercheres Point, near the site of the Fort, stands a 
statue in bronze of the girl who adorned the age in which 
she lived and whose memory is dear to posterity. For 
she had learned so to live that her hands were clean and 
her paths were straight To all future visitors to 
Canada by way of the St. Lawrence, this silent figure of 
the First Girl Scout in the New World conveys a message 
of loyalty, of courage and of devotion.” 
Our own early history is sprinkled thickly with brave, 
handy girls, who were certainly Scouts, if ever there were 
any, though they never belonged to a patrol, nor recited 
the Scout Laws. But they lived the Laws, those strong 
young pioneers, and we can stretch out our hands to them 
across the long years, and give them the hearty Scout 
grip of fellowship, when we read of them. 
THE EXPLORER 
If we should ever hold an election for honorary mem- 
bership in the Girl Scouts, open to all the girls who ought 
to have belonged to us, but who lived too long ago, we 
should surely nominate for first place one of the most 
remarkable young Indian girls who ever found her way 
through the pathless forests, — Sacajawea, “The Bird 
Woman.” 
In 1806 she was brought to Lewis and Clark 
on their expedition into the great Northwest, to 
act as interpreter between them and the various Indian 
tribes they had to encounter. From the very beginning, 
when she induced the hostile Shoshones to act as guides, 
to the end of her daring journey, during which, with her 
papoose on her back, she led this band of men through 
hitherto impassible mountain ranges, till she brought them 
