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"`Approach island from nor'-west," began O'Gorman, "`and stand towards it wid summit of hill bearin' south-east, half-south; which leads through the passage in the barrier reef. Then haul up to south a quarter west, for the mouth of the bight at the bottom of the bay. Stand boldly in until ye come abreast of the big rock at the mouth of the bight, when clew up and furl everything.
English Chief, we may remark in passing, was one of the followers of the chief who conducted Hearne on his expedition to the Coppermine River; since which event he had been a principal leader of his countrymen who were in the habit of carrying furs to the English fur-traders at Churchill, on Hudson's Bay, and was much attached to the interest of the Hudson Bay Company, which, at that time, was in opposition to the Canadian or Nor'-West Company.
There were laws indeed, but there was no authority or force sufficiently strong to apply the laws, and discord reigned because of the two great fur companies the Hudson's Bay, and the Nor'-West which opposed each other with extreme bitterness, carrying fire-water, dissension, and disaster all over the wilderness of Rupert's Land.
'But a man can hardly tell oaks from elms at that distance, my good fellow! 'That 'a can very well leastwise, if he's got the sense. 'Well, I think I see what you mean, said Christopher. 'What next? 'When you get there, you bear away smart to nor'-west, and you'll come straight as a line to the Lodge.
"Bourassin has just come in with the report that they are in great numbers away to the nor'-west, so we will make a fair start first thing in the morning." As he spoke, Dechamp glanced with evident surprise at Duncan McKay. "Why did you let him come?" he said in an under-tone to Dan, as they were tying up the horses. "How could I prevent him?" replied Dan.
This hope, in the artillery used there at that time, was not often a vain hope. Indeed, after prolonged use, the "trade gun" of the "Nor'-west" got into the habit of priming itself owing to the enlarged nature of the touch-hole also of expending not a little of its force sidewise.
We conversed freely about whatever chanced to enter our minds of things past, present, and to come. We spoke of God the Saviour, of redemption and of sin. Then, with that discursive tendency to which most minds are prone, we diverged to home and civilised lands, contrasting these with life in the wild-woods of the Great Nor'-west.
But this much let me say: that Right whaling on the Nor'-West Coast, in chill and dismal fogs, the sullen inert monsters rafting the sea all round like Hartz forest logs on the Rhine, and submitting to the harpoon like half-stunned bullocks to the knife; this horrid and indecent Right whaling, I say, compared to a spirited hunt for the gentlemanly Cachalot in southern and more genial seas, is as the butchery of white bears upon blank Greenland icebergs to zebra hunting in Caffraria, where the lively quarry bounds before you through leafy glades.
With other vagabond wanderers, the Frenchman had evidently been rummaging old Nor'-West vaults. "Tra-la, comrade," he shouted, leaping out of the cellar as soon as he saw me. "I, Louis Laplante, son of a seigneur, am resurrecting. I was a Plante! Now I'm a Louis d'or, fresh coined from the golden vein of dazzling wit.
Nicky-Nan advanced with a fine air of nonchalance. "Lookin' at the sky?" said he. "Wind's back in the nor'-west again. Which, for settled weather, I'd rather it took off-shore a bit later in the afternoon. It'll last though, for all that, I shoudn' wonder." Policeman Rat-it-all withdrew his gaze from the firmament. "I wasn' thinkin' of the wind," said he.
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