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Title: Pathfinders of the West; being the thrilling story of the adventures of the men who discovered the great Northwest
Year: 1904 (1900s)
Authors: Laut, Agnes C. (Agnes Christina), 1871-1936
Subjects: Radisson, Pierre Esprit, ca. 1636-1710 La Vérendrye, Pierre Gautier de Varennes, sieur de, 1685-1749. (from old catalog) Hearne, Samuel, 1745-1792 Mackenzie, Alexander, Sir, 1763-1820 Lewis and Clark Expedition (1804-1806)
Publisher: New York, The Macmillan company London, Macmillan & co., ltd.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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casined woodsman, came the voyageurs andcoureurs and interpreters, pack-straps across their fore-heads, packets on the bent backs, the long birch canoeshoisted to the shoulders of four men, two abreast ateach end, heads hidden in the inverted keel. The path led between the white fret of LachineRapids and the dense forests that shrouded the baseof Mount Royal. Checkerboard squares of farmpatches had been cleared in the woods. La Sallesold thatch-roofed seigniory lay not far back from thewater. St. Annes was the launching place for fleetsof canoes that were to ascend the Ottawa. Here, alast look was taken of splits and seams in the birchkeels. With Invocations of St. Anne in one breath,and invocations of a personage not mentioned in thecures petee cat-ee-cheesm in the next breath, andimprecations that their souls might be smashed onthe end of a picket fence, — the voyageurs commonoath even to this day, — the boatmen stored goodsfore, aft, and athwart till each long canoe sank to the
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Fight ai the Fool-hills of the Rockies between Crows and Snakes. SEARCH FOR THE WESTERN SEA 197 gunwale as it was gently pushed out on the water. Alast sign of the cross, and the lithe figures leap lightas a mountain cat to their place in the canoes. Thereare four benches of paddlers, two abreast, with bowmanand steersman, to each canoe. One can guess that theexplorer and his sons and his nephew, Sieur de la Jem-meraie, who was to be second in command, all unhattedas they heard the long last farewell of the bells.Every eye is fastened on the chief bowmans steel-shodpole, held high — there is silence but for the bells —the bowmans pole is lowered — as with one stroke outsweep the paddles in a poetry of motion. The chimesdie away over the water, the chapel spire gleams — it,too, is gone. Some one strikes up a plaintive ditty, —the voyageurs song of the lost lady and the fadedroses, or the dying farewell of Cadieux, the hunter, tohis comrades, — and the adventurers are launch

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