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Title: The hunter and the trapper in North America ; or, Romantic adventures in field and forest. From the French of Bénédict Révoil
Year: 1875 (1870s)
Authors: Révoil, Bénédict Henry, 1816-1882 Adams, W. H. Davenport (William Henry Davenport), 1828-1891
Subjects: Hunting Game and game-birds
Publisher: London, New York : T. Nelson and Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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greatlevel crag, behind which their hut was sheltered; andthere, his eyes fixed upon the ocean, he followed withwistful gaze the white sails of the distant ships, orstared into the swift and flashing current which boreonward the wandering bonitos or the blue-backeddorados. Often, too, with the help of an iron crook, the boycollected the beautiful ulvge and algae, which the furiouswaves incessantly tore up from the submerged meadowsof the ocean and cast upon the rocks. These were the only labours Ben ever succeeded inaccomplishing, and he was so passionately addicted tothem, that neither his sister nor brothers cared to re-proach him, or to complain of a desultory life which wasevidently natural to him. From our very first interview Ben had conceived agreat afiection for me, though generally he was renderedwild and alarmed by the presence of a stranger on thesolitary shore. The second time that I landed on theisland, he pressed me to remain some days with him. I BEN THE NATURALIST. 25
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FOLLOWED WITH WISTFUL GAZE THE WHITE SAILS OF THE DISTANT SHIPS. suffered myself to be persuaded, and all the more readilybecause Ben undertook to show me various kinds offish, and birds, and animals with which I was unac-quainted. And, in truth, the little fellow did not deceive me; heknew all their hiding-places, and could clamber unhurtthe rough and dangerous crags, place his hand on the 26 IN PERIL OF HIS LIFE. penguin while she brooded over her eggs without puttingher to flight; and where I should have declared war, hemade peace. One morning, the third day after my arrival at Jessieshut, wishing to profit by a glorious sun, and to make aprolonged exploration of the coast^ I asked Jessie whereher brother was. She Went in quest of him, called him,him and his three brothers. None of them were on theisland. I swept the shores with my telescope, but couldsee nothing of them. Resolved, however, not to waste the day in-doors, Itook my gun, and whistled for my dog; but I had notgone twen

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