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But of what use would that have been? We had to endure it, so it was best to get it over quickly. The "Nor'-west Angle" The Company's House Triumph of "Stick-in-the-Mud" On the Lake of the Woods A Gallant Cook Buns a l'imprevu A Man overboard! Camping out Clear Water Bay Our First Portage A Noble Savage How Lake Rice and Lake Deception won their Names At our Journey's End.
It has often struck me, while sojourning in the great Nor'-west, that civilised man surrounds himself with a great many needless luxuries which do not by any means add to his comfort, though the removal of them might add considerably to his distress. But to return.
To us who dwelt at the little outpost in the Great Nor'-west, snow and ice had become so familiar such matter-of-course conditions of existence that green fields and flowers were a mere reminiscence of the remote past. The scent of a rose was a faded memory indeed the scent of anything belonging to the vegetable kingdom had not once saluted our nostrils during those eight months.
Leaving the station, some four hundred miles to the N.N.W. of Cutmore's, they travelled by Lake Way, where a fair-sized mining community was then established, and Lawlers, where the advance of civilisation was marked by numerous "pubs." Their stock had not suffered from want of food or water in fact, a very general rain seemed to have spread from Coolgardie to the Nor'-West.
"We started then, as Master Prosper will remember, a little before dark; and having lanterns to light the track, and now and then the north star between the tree-tops to give us our bearings, we crossed the valley and came out through a kind of pass upon a second slope, a little nor'-west of the spot where I happened yesterday on Master Prosper.
Blondin took hold of the tail-line, and the others brought up the rear. Thus comfortably, with a bright sun shining in the blue sky, I returned to Fort Wichikagan. We must turn away now, for a short time, to another, though not far distant, part of the Great Nor'-West. It is a more open country than that immediately around Fort Wichikagan, and lies to the south of it.
"Nay, I shan't tell you, my lad. That's for you to find out." "Well, I will directly," said Bart, shading his eyes. "Where are we now? Oh, I see. Now I know. No; I don't, they move so slowly. Yes, I can see. They are going towards the north, Joses." "Nor'-west, my lad," said the frontier man; "but that was a pretty good hit you made.
Jacob was "as cross as two sticks," if we are to believe Mrs Bland, his housekeeper and Mrs Bland was worthy of belief, for she was an honest widow who held prevarication to be equivalent to lying, and who, besides having been in the old bachelor's service for many years, had on one occasion been plucked by him from under the feet of a pair of horses when attempting the more dangerous than nor'-west passage of a London crossing.
From this he carefully withdrew a paper, folded lengthwise, and, opening it, read: "`Latichood: Two, forty-eight, forty; south. Longitood: One hundred and forty-four, ten, ten; west. Approach island from nor'-west, and stand towards it with summit of hill bearin' south-east half-south, which leads through the passage in the barrier reef.
Evidence accumulates that the heat and opposition of the "Nor'-West" partners Sir Alexander Mackenzie, Inglis and Ellice shown at the general meeting of the Company, were to break out in numberless hidden and irritating efforts to stop and perhaps render impossible the whole Colonizing project. Just as the active agents, Miles Macdonell, Capt.
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