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Updated: May 15, 2025
A rousing cheer told of the successful shot, and at once when the bird was secured the canoes were headed for the shore. There a dinner was quickly prepared, and in glorious picnic style it was enjoyed by all. The loon was skinned by one of the Indian men, and subsequently was tanned in native fashion, and a beautiful fire-bag was made from it of which in after years Sam was very proud.
"Monsieur has been lost and nearly frozen, and Monsieur would surely have been quite frozen if James Dougall had not discovered that Monsieur had left his fire-bag at home, by mistake no doubt; we at once set out to search for Monsieur, and we found him with his head in the snow and his feet in the air.
Eve was sitting on a low stool at the feet of Mrs Liston, engaged in ornamenting a bright blue fire-bag with bead and quill work of the most gorgeous colouring and elegant design. The design, of course, was her own. Mrs Liston was knitting small squares of open cotton-work, of a stitch so large that wooden needles about the size of a goose-quill were necessary.
"And," he added, beginning to pull off his boots, "if your father had not been there with the spouter we should have been out on the floes fighting still, for some of the walruses were savage, and hard to kill." After supper, as a matter of course, Nazinred looked round with an air of benign satisfaction on his fine face. "Is my fire-bag behind you, Adolay?" he asked in a low voice.
At the same time she presented the fire-bag to the Indian, adding that she was glad to have had it so nearly ready when he arrived. "For whom are these pretty things, my dear?" asked Mrs Liston. "The fire-bag, mother, is for Big Otter, and the moccasins is " "Are, Eve are plural you know." "Is," replied Eve, with emphasis, "for my dear friend, Jessie, the black-haired pale-face."
"I've seen that once before," exclaimed Cheenbuk with delight, taking up the fire-bag tenderly, "and have often wished that I had these things for making fire." "Well, you may have them now. They belonged to my father. All our men carry bags with these things in them." "And I've seen this too once," continued the youth, smiling, as he pulled out a tobacco-pipe.
When the Indian had finished eating he accepted a draught of warm water, and then had recourse to his fire-bag and pipe. Cheenbuk expected this, and smiled inwardly, though his outward visage would have done credit to an owl. At last he looked up and asked the Indian how he came to be travelling thus alone and so far from his native land.
Glad to escape from the suffocating hole, I emptied my fire-bag of tobacco among the group and got out into the cold night-air. What a change! Over the silent snow-sheeted lake, over the dark isles and the cedar shores, the moon was shining amidst a deep blue sky. Around were grouped a few birch-bark wigwams.
When the hunter had stood for full five minutes gazing at the beautiful scenery by which he was surrounded, it suddenly occurred to him that a pipe would render him much more capable of enjoying it; so he sat down on the trunk of a fallen tree, leaned his gun on it, pulled the fire-bag from his belt, and began to fill his pipe, which was one of the kind used by the savages of the country, with a stone head and a wooden stem.
A long knife and a small hatchet were stuck in the belt at his back, and in front hung a small cloth bag, which was so thickly ornamented with beads of many colours, that little of the cloth could be seen. This last was a fire-bag so called because it contained the flint, steel, and tinder required for making a fire. It also contained Jasper's pipe and tobacco for he smoked, as a matter of course.
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