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No sign of occupation was to be found within save a great rusty galley range, two rickety chairs, an improvised table, two rusty kettles and a huge frying-pan. "They have given the ship up as a total loss, and have left in dories or skin-boats," said Marian. "Yes," agreed Lucile. "Wanted to get across the Straits before the coming of the White Line." The "coming of the White Line." Marian started.
"I haven't a doubt," said the Major, "that they still believe that we rode here on the back of old Thunder-bird himself. And why not? If we can build schooners many times as large as their largest skin-boats and run them by noise alone, if we can kill at a distance by a magic of great noises, why couldn't we tame the Thunder-bird himself and make him carry us?
You've been staying there, I guess." He grinned. Marian nodded. "Well, the ship was hopeless. Natives came in their skin-boats from East Cape." "East Cape? How far how far is that?" "Perhaps ten miles. Why?" He studied the girl's startled face. "Nothing; only didn't a white man come with the natives?" "A white man?" "I've heard there was one staying there." "No, he didn't come."
"It afterwards transpired that the old sheep was a trick and straight-race pony, celebrated among all the tribes of the south, and had lately won for his master six hundred ponies among the Kickapoos of the Indian Nation." They learned from these Indians to handle skin-boats, or "bull-boats," such as we shall see were in constant use among the Mandans of the upper Missouri.
This active leader, it will be recollected, had embarked the year previously in skin-boats on the Bighorn, freighted with the year's collection of peltries. He had met with misfortune in the course of his voyage: one of his frail barks being upset, and part of the furs lost or damaged. The arrival of the supplies gave the regular finish to the annual revel.
He returns to the Forests. His Plan for reaching the Pacific. Tremendous Difficulties in his Way. He reaches the Mandans. His Sons discover the Rocky Mountains. Alexander Mackenzie follows the Mackenzie River to the Arctic Ocean. He achieves a Passage over the Mountains to the Pacific. Mah-to-toh-pa's Vengeance. Singular Dwellings of the Mandans. Their Bloody Ordeal. Skin-boats.
We now discovered three skin-boats full of people standing towards us from the shore. They were inhabitants of Ungava, and welcomed our approach with loud shouts of joy and firing their pieces, which was answered by our party. They followed us to Omanek, a round island rising like a loaf among the rest, where they pitched their tents on shore.
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