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First, there was the fur-laden keel boat in which we travelled, gone forever now from Western navigation. It had its rude square sail to take advantage of the river winds, its mast strongly braced to hold the long tow-ropes. But tow-ropes were for the endless up-river journey, when a numerous crew strained day after day along the bank, chanting the voyageurs' songs.
Norman knew the animal as one of the most common in the "trade"; and in addition to what we have recorded, also related many adventures and stories current among the voyageurs, in which this creature figures in quite as fanciful a manner as he does in the works either of Olaus Magnus, or Count de Buffon. After remaining a day at their first camp on the lake, our voyageurs continued their journey.
A sharp whistle and an Indian ran from the brush of an island opposite the camp, signalling the white men to head the deer back; but when Radisson called from the waterside, the savage took fright and dashed for the woods. All that night the voyageurs kept sleepless guard. In the morning they moved to the island and kindled a signal-fire to call the Indians.
At intervals, and still louder, could be heard a different sort of cry shrill and plaintive, like the hinny of a mule and evidently proceeding not from the wolves, but from the huge white animal which they were assailing. The voyageurs at once recognised the cry. "A bear! a sea bear!" exclaimed both together. One of them stood up, and looked over the plain.
By Robert Kerr. Edin. 1811-22. 18 vols. 8vo. Relation de divers Voyages curieux, qui n'ont point encore été publiés, et qu'on a traduits ou tirés des Originaux des Voyageurs Français, Espagnols, Allemands, &c. &c. Par M. Thevenot. Paris, 1696. 2 vol. fol. This work is seldom found complete: the marks of the complete and genuine edition are given in the Bibliothèque des Voyages, vol. i. pp. 82, 83.
As he was a considerable distance from the camp, he cut out the tongue and some of the choice bits, made them into a parcel, and slinging them on his shoulders by a strap passed round his forehead, as the voyageurs carry packages of goods, set out all glorious for the camp, anticipating a triumph over his brother hunters.
"Grisettes and commis voyageurs!" said Dalrymple, contemptuously. "Let us go and look at the dancers." We went on, and stood in the shelter of some trees near the orchestra. The players consisted of three violins, a clarionette and a big drum. The big drum was an enthusiastic performer.
Our voyageurs were chilled to the very bones, and of course glad to see the daylight glimmering through the tops of the trees that grew upon the banks of the river. As soon as day broke, they began to consider how they would reach those trees. Although swimming a river of that width would have been to any of the four a mere bagatelle, they saw that it was not to be so easy an affair.
I was on my way to meet you, Denzil, and it is fortunate that we did not miss each other." A few moments later we were all tucked into the canoe. Moralle was still unconscious, and the paddles of the voyageurs swept us down the foaming current of the Churchill River.
The Indians and Canadian voyageurs eat the flesh of the beaver, esteeming it, when roasted with the skin on the hair having been singed off the most dainty of dishes. Early in this century, when beaver fur was much in demand for the manufacture of hats, upwards of 120,000 skins were exported from Quebec alone in one year.
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