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Updated: June 6, 2025
Presently, as though there had been no pause, Barnes resumed his quotation from the supervisor's report: "'Because of the absolute lack of beaten trails, and the fact that the snow lies so loosely on the ground like so much salt, no matter what its depth may be, it was necessary through all their work to snow-shoe ahead of the dog-teams.
It was night before the two were completed, and furnished with straps and loops. When the last stroke was put to them, the Indian girl knelt down at Hector's feet, and binding them on, pointed to them with a joyous laugh, and said, "Snow-shoe for walk on snow good!"
We started early in the morning, the Canadian leading, and about noon fell on fresh snow-shoe tracks the tracks, we supposed, of some of our people who had come to seek us; and feeling assured that our sufferings would terminate with the day, we pursued our route with renovated vigour and speed; when lo! our encampment of the preceding night came in view, the excitement of our minds having prevented us from discerning our mistake, as we might have done, sooner.
They pushed on for some time. Then the strap of Van's snow-shoe broke. "Oh, thunder! Got a knife, Bob?" he called. "This darn thing's busted. I'll have to haul to for repairs." Bob stopped impatiently. "Why didn't you look at it before you started?" he said. "Never thought of it, Old Preparedness," was the good-natured reply. "No matter, I have some string and I think I can fix it."
The first mails had taken the news to the outside world, and by midwinter the earliest members of a treasure-hunting horde were rushing into the country by snow-shoe and dog-sledge. Other finds came thick and fast. The McFarlane was rich in free gold, and miners by the score staked out their claims along it and began work.
Here the Indian instructed Tony in all the mysteries of the hunter's craft, showed him how to set traps for wolves and foxes, and snares for rabbits, and taught him how to use the gun, and how to follow the tracks of game in the snow. He also made him a little bow, with a sheaf of blunt-headed arrows, and a pair of snow-shoe frames, the interstices of which were filled up by the red man's wife.
Nell," he cried, giving vent to a deep sigh of relief, "I'm thankful to see you but look here. What snow-shoe made this track? I came on it just this moment, and it pulled me up slick, I can tell ye." Nelly at once removed Roy's alarm, and increased his surprise by telling him of the new arrival, who, she said, was friendly, but she did not tell him that he was an old friend.
The men with him said 'Kaiomi' to everything I asked, and that means 'No savvy. Says he'll teach me he'll teach all of us how to snow-shoe." "We know how to snow-shoe." "Oh, I mean on those long narrow snow-shoes that make you go so fast you always trip up! He'll show us how to steer with a pole, and how to make fish-traps and and everything." Mac began measuring out some tea.
A deer he might have overtaken, but small game the wolf must hunt as the fox hunts it, and he began to slip through the thickets slowly and as quietly as a shadow. He was a mile from the Sun Rock when two quick leaps put Gray Wolf's supper between his jaws. He trotted back slowly, dropping the big seven-pound snow-shoe hare now and then to rest.
The great, black form lunged up and crashed forward into the open, towering, formidable, and shaking ominous antlers. Taken by surprise, and too close to shoot in time, the rash hunter sprang aside to make for a tree. He had heard much of the charge of a wounded moose. As he turned, the toe of one snow-shoe caught on a branchy stub, just below the surface of the snow.
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