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Before leaving, however, they had a specimen of one of the ways in which fur-traders in those lonely regions of the far north enjoy themselves. The whole establishment consisted of the officer in charge MacSweenie his interpreter Donald Mowat, and seven men two of whom were French Canadians, two half-castes, and three Orkney-men.
Those of them that were able to walk were bound together by the wrists and marched off to the fort, under a guard which was strengthened by the arrival of several of the fur-traders who had been in pursuit of the fugitives, and were attracted to the spot by the shouts of the combatants.
Nowhere outside of the trans-Alleghany country would the rise of a Lincoln have been possible. While the Ohio country the lower half of the States of Ohio, Indiana, and Illinois was throwing off its frontier character, the remoter Northwest was still a wilderness frequented only by fur-traders and daring explorers.
"Don't you think," said I, after some minutes' thought, "that it is our duty first to return to the camp of your tribe, and also that I should send Salamander back to Fort Wichikagan to tell where I have gone, and for what purpose? For Salamander is not free like myself. He is still a servant of the fur-traders." "No, that is not your duty," said the Indian decidedly.
The Huguenots would have emigrated in swarms; but they were rigidly forbidden. The zeal of propagandism and the fur-trade were, as we have seen, the vital forces of New France. Of her feeble population, the best part was bound to perpetual chastity; while the fur-traders and those in their service rarely brought their wives to the wilderness.
"I've know'd white men," interrupted Redhand, "who called themselves Christians, and didn't object to take scalps when they got the chance." "So have I," returned Bounce, "an' more's the pity. It's sichlike blackguards as these that keeps honest trappers and fur-traders for iver in hot water here.
To the amazement of every one Darkeye himself was among them. The wily savage knowing that his attempting to quit that part of the country as a fugitive would be certain to fix suspicion on him as the murderer resolved to face the fur-traders as if he were ignorant of the deed which had been done. By the very boldness of this step he hoped to disarm suspicion; but he forgot the bitten ball.
To this haven of rest Samuel Ravenshaw had retired, after spending an active life in the service of the fur-traders, somewhat stiffened in the joints by age and a rough career, and a good deal soured in disposition because of promotion having, as he thought, been too long deferred. Besides Elsie, old Ravenshaw possessed some other gems of inferior lustre.
The boys were interested in this novel kind of whaling; but they were more deeply interested in the possible outcome of the situation in which they, and their friends, and the fur-traders, and the bark's crew, were all placed. The tearing away of this piece of our planet, on which the boys and their companions now sailed, must end finally in some terrible catastrophe.
When the whites first settled in that neighborhood, the Indians raised corn and other provisions enough, not only for their own use, but also for the fur-traders and settlers. Now they are altogether dependent for even the scanty subsistence by which they are dragging out the remnant of a miserable life, upon the whites.
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